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 Measurements of Becquerel rays. The Experimental Confirmation of the Lorentz-Einstein Theory.

By (Bonn)

To the extent by which the theory of electricity occupies other areas of the phenomenal world, and in this way is becoming the foundation of the whole of physics, the desire for a consistent theory of the actual electrodynamic phenomena increases. It appeared for a long time, as if the -concept of the aether as the mediator of the electromagnetic processes, would serve as a sufficient and definite foundational hypothesis.