# Dayton Miller Interferometry — Investigation

**Status:** Open  
**Triggered by:** [The Suppression of Maxwell and the Aether](/timeline/evt-suppression-of-maxwell-and-the-aether) (13.06.00): "Dayton Miller's 1920s interferometry results; he claimed positive aether detection; dismissed but never refuted."

## Claim

Dayton Miller conducted ether-drift experiments (1920s) that reportedly detected a non-null result consistent with aether flow. Mainstream narrative attributes this to experimental error or temperature effects; the claim that his results were "never refuted" needs verification.

## Methodology

- Locate Miller's published papers and raw data (e.g., *Reviews of Modern Physics*, 1933).
- Compare with Michelson-Morley null result and subsequent replications.
- Document how Miller's work was characterized by contemporaries and later textbooks.
- Assess whether any peer-reviewed refutation specifically addressed his methodology and findings.

## Findings

(To be populated.)

## References

- Maxwell article open questions: investigations/maxwell-aether/ (01, 02)
- Michelson-Morley experiment (1887) — standard null-result narrative

## Next Steps

- Retrieve Miller's 1933 review and any reanalysis (e.g., by Shankland or others).
- Determine if data or apparatus have been re-examined with modern methods.

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