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found a systematic deviation from the null result predicted by SR, successfully defended himself during his lifetime, to reach the which greatly embarrassed Einstein and his followers. Einstein conclusion that Miller's results must be invalid. Some relativity tried to explain it away as an artefact of temperature variation, but sceptics believe that that conclusion was preordained by Miller had taken great care to avoid precisely that kind of error. Shankland's manifest devotion to Einstein, which is evident in his Miller told the Cleveland Plain Dealer on January 27, 1926: writing.” * "The trouble with Professor Einstein is that he knows nothing One of these sceptics, James DeMeo, PhD, has undertaken a about my results... He ought to give me credit for knowing that _— detailed review of Miller's work and Shankland's critique“ that temperature differences would affect the results. He wrote to me comes to the conclusion that the Shankland team "with some in November suggesting this. I am not so simple as to make no degree of consultation with Einstein, decided that 'Miller must be allowance for temperature." wrong’ and then set about to see what they could find in his But the tide of scientific opinion had turned against the aether archive that would support that conclusion". and in favour of Einstein. The 1919 solar eclipse observations led Tt must be noted, however, that Miller's determination of the by Sir Arthur Eddington, which allegedly confirmed general velocity of the Earth relative to the aether is incompatible with relativity's prediction of the deflection modern observations. Miller found that of starlight by a gravitational field, the solar system is moving at a speed were so ambivalent and poorly of 208 kilometres per second (km/s) performed that they were scientifically towards a point in the Great worthless,” but thanks to Eddington's . . 19: Magellanic Cloud in the constellation authority they were accepted as a But the tide of scientific Doradus, in contradiction to modern resounding confirmation. Some of the ini i measurements discussed below. stars had moved in the direction opinion had turned against Even if the alleged null result of the predicted by Einstein, but not as much the existence of the aether M-M experiment is accepted, the or too much; others had even moved in and in favour of Einstein. isotropy of the speed of light does not the opposite direction. necessarily follow. M. Psimopoulos Confirmation was obtained by the and T. Theocharis, two physicists at "scientific" device of discarding the Imperial College, London, point out in data that didn't fit the prediction and a 1986 letter to Nature* that the M—M retaining the data that did. The experiment has only been performed in "confirmation" was triumphantly terrestrial laboratories, where the announced by Eddington at a joint meeting of the Royal Society gravitational field and the magnetosphere of the Earth and other and the Royal Astronomical Society to an audience that had not ambient factors are always present, and must therefore be actually seen the data first hand. In the judgement of an repeated in space before its conclusions can be accepted as eyewitness, the meeting resembled a coronation ceremony rather universal. They note that: than a scientific conference.* "...all sorts of experiments have already been conducted in Because of this scientific fraud, Einstein became a world space. But the few experiments which might have truly tested the celebrity overnight, surrounded by an aura of scientific perhaps most fundamental and controversial hypotheses in twenti- infallibility. Miller's results—which suggested that in order to eth-century physics—Einstein's postulates—have curiously not detect anisotropies in the speed of light, the interferometer needed been done." to be surrounded by as little matter as possible and located at a Continued next issue... high altitude—were ignored in subsequent tests of the isotropy of the speed of light, such as the Brillet-Hall experiment® and, About the Author: recently, the Miiller experiment.® Rochus Boerner is a PhD student at the Department of After Miller's death, one of his students, Robert S. Shankland, Mathematics and Statistics at Arizona State University. He gave the physics establishment the final excuse it needed to forget has a Master of Natural Science (MNS) degree in mathematics Miller's work for good." Shankland simply revived the old criti and computer science and is currently finishing his cism of temperature variations, against which Miller had always _ dissertation. Endnotes 7. Albagli, D. et al., "Measurement and analy- 12. Mallove, Eugene F., "Ten Years That 1. Martin, Brian, "Stamping Out Dissent", sis of neutron and gamma ray emission rates, Shook Physics", Infinite Energy 4(24):3 Newsweek, April 26, 1993, pp. 49-50 other fusion products, and power in electro- (March-April 1999) 2. Wilson, Robert Anton, The New Inquisition, chemical cells having Pd cathodes", Journal of 13. Infinite Energy 4(24) (March-April 1999) New Falcon Publications, 1991 Fusion Energy 9(2):133 (1990) 14. Szpak, S., Mosier-Boss, P.A. (eds), 3. Jahn, Robert G., "20th and 21st Century 8. Gai, M. et al., "Upper Limits on Neutron and "Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D,0 Science: Reflections and Projections", Journal | Gamma-Ray Emission from Cold Fusion", System Vol. 1: A Decade of Research at Navy of Scientific Exploration 15(1):21 (2001) Nature 340:29-34 (July 6, 1989) Laboratories", Space and Naval Warfare 4. Bauer, Henry H., Editorial, Journal of 9. Beaudette, Charles G., Excess Heat — Why Systems Center, United States Navy, Technical Scientific Exploration 14(3):304-305 (2000) Cold Fusion Research Prevailed, Oak Grove Report 1862, February 2002, 5. Pons, S., Fleischmann, M., Press, 2000, p. 113 http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/ "Electrochemically induced nuclear fusion of 10. ibid., pp. 90-97 pubs/tr/1862/tr1862-voll pdf; volume 2 at deuterium", Journal of Electroanalytical 11. Mallove, Eugene F., "MIT and Cold http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/ Chemistry 261(2A):301-308 (April 10, 1989) Fusion: A Special Report", Infinite Energy pubs/tr/1862/tr1862-vol2.pdf 6. Lewis, N.S. et al., "Searches for low-temper- 4(24):64-118 (March-April 1999), available 15. Daviss, B., "Reasonable Doubt", New ature nuclear fusion of deuterium in palladium", —_ online at http://www. infinite-energy.com/ Nature 340:525-530 (1989) images/pdfs/mitcfreport.pdf Continued on page 7 Opinion had turned against the existence of the aether About the Author: Rochus Boerner is a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Arizona State University. He has a Master of Natural Science (MNS) degree in mathematics and computer science and is currently finishing his dissertation. NEXUS +55 But the tide of scientific and in favour of Einstein. Continued next issue... FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com