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Show Glen H. Draper Startles Scientists By New Theory Of Light Eastern newspapers have recently devoted considerable space to interviews inter-views with Glen H. Draper, fo'rruer Pleasant Grove high school and U. of (J. student, who is now one of the scientists connected with the United Stales Naval Observatory. Mr. Draper, who is 28 years of age, has assailed the Einstein theory of light, and in so doing has propounded a new theory which differs widely from the classical classi-cal wave theory. Capt. S. C. Freeman, U. S. N. supt. of the observatory, has become interested inter-ested in the Draper theory and is trying to interest distinguished scientists scien-tists of the nation in it. At six years of age, M'r. Draper moved to Pleasant Grove. He attended attend-ed the grade school and high school In Pleasant Grove where he distinguished distin-guished himself in mathematics. At the U. of U., where he graduated in 1923, he soon became recognized as one of the foremost mathematicians who had ever attended school. He spent a short time in the German mission, but was forced to return on account of illness. After an attempt to set to Chicago, he took post graduate work in mathmetics at the university. Two years ago he became associated with the United States naval observatory. About two weeks ago the New York Times and the Washington Post devoted de-voted about a column each to interviews inter-views with Mr. Draper on his new theory. His theory, which definitely re- futes certain generally acceptrd points in the Einstein proposition, is that the speed of light is not the limit of velocity and that the velocity varies with relation to the speed and direction of the source, the medium through which it travels and the speed and direction of the observer. Einstein's theory postulated the premise that the speed of light is not only the limit of velocity, but that it remains constant without regard to any outs'ide influence. This theory, Draper holds, was unacceptable to him even while he was in college, because it failed to explain and seemed to contradict certain obvious phenomena such as aberration of light, and that it seemed seem-ed to violate the law of cause and effect. ! Draper's theory is that the speed of light is constant with respect to the center of the mass of the source, but that it varies with relation to speed and direction of the source, the medium through which it passes, and the speed and direction of the observer. |