Re: Basis of SR?

Added missing text:

"Poincaré's work at the Bureau des Longitudes on establishing
international time zones led him to consider how clocks at
rest on the Earth, which would be moving at different speeds
relative to absolute space (or the "luminiferous aether"), could
be synchronised. At the same time Dutch theorist
Hendrik Lorentz was developing Maxwell's theory into
a theory of the motion of charged particles ("electrons" or "ions"),
and their interaction with radiation. He had introduced in 1895
an auxiliary quantity (without physical interpretation) called
"local time" t1 = t-vx1/cc where x1 = x -vt
and introduced the hypothesis of length contraction to explain the
failure of optical and electrical experiments to detect motion
relative to the aether (see Michelson-Morley experiment).[8]"


If this is where it comes from then you SR'ians all have been wasting
everyones time, since MMX was a wrongly thought out experiment
whose results would (and did) simply have shown Galilean
relativity or nothing more than Newtonian ballistic theory
as appliplicable.


Spirit of Truth


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