Re: Relativity and Maxwell's eqautions


"Danny Dot" <don't.mail.me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > "Danny Dot" <don't.mail.me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > | Does anyone have some good info/links on the relationship between
| > relativity
| > | and Maxwell's equations?
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| > Yes.
| > http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
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| > Androcles.
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| I was hoping for a paper with better credentials. This is a 100 year old
| paper written by on unknown patent clerk :-)
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| Just kidding. Thanks for this link. This was perfect. My understanding
| was the derivation of the transformations from Maxwell's equations WAS the
| big thing for Einstein in 1905.

Well... I'm not sure I did you any favours. The paper needs analysing,
it was written by an unknown patent clerk who had just finished reading
H.G. Wells' "Time Machine" and failed an entrance examination to be an
electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich.

http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Rocket/Rocket.htm

Androcles


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