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This result produced a great commotion in the scientific world. For Michelson-Morley experiment had led us to conclude that either there was no substance as material ether or that it moved with the earth or that it remained inert and at rest in the space, while Miller's work indicated ether's existence and proved ether to be not non-existent.
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More delicate experiments were taken up in Germany in the year 1925 by Tomaschek to detect the motion reported by Miller. The work of Tomaschek was again criticised by Chose in America and he carried out his experiments which were published in the Physical Review, August 1926, "No such motion could be detected The Michelson experiment has been again repeated in recent years in a free balloon at heights of nearly 12 and 3 miles but the authors report that they are unable to confirm or refute Miller's report The Miller's results for some reasons are proved to be inaccurate by the research of Kennedy in USA. published in November 1926 The famous "Chicago Rotation Experiment" designed to test the effect of the earth's rotation on the velocity of light confirmed the view that ether was static and not moving. Thus, many experiments were performed to detect the motion of ether but the conclusion of all of them was that ether is static and not moving D C. Miller in his paper "Ether-drift experiment and determination of the absolute motion of the earth" read before the British Association, Leicester, in Sep
