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Let us think of the mutual action between a magnet and a conductor.

Ten years later, in 1905, we find Einstein declaring that “the ether will be proved to be superfluous.”

The name of Prof. Albrecht Einstein has now spread far beyond the narrow pale of scientific investigators. Even now, it continues to do so.

At the present time, different opinions are being held about the fundamental equations of Electro-dynamics for moving bodies.

Now many authors say that classical mechanics stand in opposition to the relativity postulate, which is taken to be the basis of the new Electro-dynamics.

A short summary of the electromagnetic experiments bearing on this question, has already been given in the introduction.