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Show Keeping Up Witihlciene Ityd cence o ervve Science Service. WNU Service. Einstein Theory Challenged by Canadian Physicist New Formula Stirs World of Science NEW YORK. A keen-minded, keen-minded, elderly Canadian mathematician from Montreal, lacking what is commonly regarded re-garded as accepted academic affiliation, wrote abstract mathematical formulae on the blackboard in the lecture room of Columbia University's Michael Pu-pfh Pu-pfh Laboratory of Physics, and presented pre-sented evidence that seriously challenges chal-lenges some of the basic concepts of Twentieth century physics. The challenging report was presented before the American Physical society soci-ety meeting. Reading like a roll call of famous scientists were the names drawn into the discussion of the mathematical mathe-matical symbols, for behind the cryptic chalk marks on the blackboard black-board were Implications which seem to challenge, clarify and yet support In a most paradoxical fashion the work of such men as Einstein, MJch-elson, MJch-elson, Morley, Miller, Lorentz and Fitzgerald. Michelson Results Questioned. Except to a physicist those names may mean but little, yet they represent repre-sent the men who by experiment and theory were Instrumental In creating cre-ating Einstein's special theory. The symbols on the blackboard aroused the discussion because they raise once again the question of the validity of the theories on which the classic Michelson-Morley experiment experi-ment to determine the ether drift was based. When one recalls that the Michelson-Morley experiment served as one of the "springboards" from which Einstein created the theory of relativity the Importance becomes clear. Is Relativity a Myth? Is Einstein's relativity wrong or is it strengthened? Has the Michelson-Morley experiment and its many repetitions been a mere scientific mirage? Was the ingenious hypothesis hy-pothesis of Lorentz and Fitzgerald to explain the negative results of Michelson and Morley's experiment mere needless speculation? These are some of the questions which sci entists are trying to puzzle out. Who is this man who, with his equations, may potentially clear up a forty-year-old scientific problem? He is William B. Cnrtmel, from the University of Montreal. For years Mr. Cartmel has been working to find out what possible reason there might be for the great discrepancy between the negative results of Michelson and Morley in their ether drift experiment and the definite positive results obtained by Prof. Dayton C. Miller over a period pe-riod of many years. Possibilities of New Theory. Professor Miller's results stand alone, like a high mountain In a flat plateau country, among the results of the original experiment n'nd the many repetitions since then. If Miller's results are right, then Einstein's Ein-stein's relativity theory Is wrong. Mr. Cartmel claims that his mathematical math-ematical Interpretations account very well for the results of Professor Pro-fessor Miller and account at the same time for all the other results obtained from the original Michelson-Morley experiment right down to the present. That Is his claim, and today scientists are puzzling over his equations, and the basic postulates which underlie them to see if Cartmel's claims are valid. If they are, one of the biggest science stories of the last forty years can be told. If not, Cartmel will be just one more name added to the sizable and distinguished list of those who have tried to crack one of the most difficult problems of physics in the last forty years. |