Timeline for Maxwell's equations without special relativity
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| Feb 26, 2019 at 1:46 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | @DvijMankad the individual laws were experimentally determined, so to say they don't make sense is ridiculous. SR added more knowledge about the E&M fields, but it doesn't invalidate any knowledge about them separately. | |
| Feb 26, 2019 at 1:37 | comment | added | user87745 | But, ultimately, they don't really make sense without special relativity because of the fact that they spontaneously determine the speed of light in all the frames that they are true in, right? And people realized this and that led to the whole Lorentz-Poincare-Michealson-Morley thingy. | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 3:26 | history | answered | Kyle Kanos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |