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Determining Ether Drag - Aberration of Starlight
In order to determine the relative motion between the Earth and the ether (the medium through which light supposedly propagated. It has zero density and complete transparency), scientists used the ...
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The definition of an inertial reference frame in Einstein's relativity
I'm reading Sean Carroll's book on general relativity, and I have a question about the definition of an inertial reference frame. In the first chapter that's dedicated to special relativity, the ...
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Galileo's dictum and how light cannot violate it
Okay. So I've been told that the speed of light is constant and cannot violate Galileo's dictum, but even if it weren't constant (in a vacuum), how would it violate it anyway?
Say you are on a train ...
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Does the speed of light vary in noninertial frames?
The speed of light is the same in all inertial frames.
Does it change from a non-inertial frame to another? Can it be zero?
If it is not constant in non-inertial frames, is it still bounded from ...
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In what subfields and how fare can the “naive limit” of special relativity be carried?
Even if many interesting similarities between the classical and the quantum mechanical framework have been worked out, e.g. in the subject of deformation quantization, in general, there are some ...
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Why is $c$ considered as the speed of the photons?
Maxwell equations brought $\ c_{o}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{\mu_{o}\varepsilon_{o}}}\ $.
Since this is a constant, it made all physicists at that time wonder where was the frame of reference?
They ended up with ...
