Abstract
Two recent letters (January p17) discussed whether physicists were right to dismiss the aether-drift experiment that was carried out in 1926 by Dayton Miller – even though his work appeared to refute Einstein's theory of relativity. If we are to be honest about the published record, it is abundantly clear that Miller's experiments – using the most sensitive interferometer ever constructed, and paying strict attention to the environmental conditions – detected a very real aether drift. In other words, it pointed to variations in the speed of light along a specific cosmological axis aligned with sidereal co-ordinates, rather than civil-time co-ordinates.
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