After 1910, the triumph of Einstein's theory of relativity almost came to an unexpected end when Dayton Miller published his measurements in 1922 indicating an ether drift in contrast to all former Michelson–Morley experiments. This attack on Einstein's fundamental principle of the constancy of the vacuum speed of light independently of spatial direction was countered by Georg Joos who found no “Aether wind” using the best optical equipment of the company Carl Zeiss in Jena in 1930. His precision record sealed the fate of the “Ethereal Aether,” against all attempts in Nazi Germany and the Communist Soviet Union to save the ether on ideological grounds.
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