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• Lorentz ether theory
  ...le of relativity]]) Lorentz tried in 1899 and 1904 to expand his theory to all orders in ''v''/''c'' by introducing the [[Lorentz transformation]]. In add ...vity. The introduction of [[length contraction]] and [[time dilation]] for all phenomena in a "preferred" [[frame of reference]], which plays the role of
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• Holism
  ...'''whole-ism''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] {{lang|grc|ὅλος}} ''holos'' "all, whole, entire") is the idea that [[system]]s (physical, biological, chemic ...page</ref> It was Smuts' opinion that Holism is a concept that represents all of the wholes in the universe, and these wholes are the real factors in the
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• Lorentz transformation
  In each reference frame, an observer can use a local coordinate system (most exclusively [[Cartesian coordinates]] in this context) to measure lengths, ...gs of events]], but always such that the [[speed of light]] is the same in all inertial reference frames. The invariance of light speed is one of the [[po
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• History of special relativity
  ...orm in the work of [[James Clerk Maxwell]]. According to Maxwell's theory, all optical and electrical phenomena propagate through that medium, which sugge ...tion, and a "local time" in which Maxwell's equations retain their form in all inertial frames of reference. Working with Lorentz's aether theory, [[Henri
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• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...not possible for the Earth to remain at rest with respect to the aether at all times, because of the variation in both the direction and the speed of the ...ng light waves through water at rest. The results of such experiments were all negative.<ref group="A" name="laub" /> This could be explained by using [[A
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• James Clerk Maxwell
  ...tTopics/Knots_and_physics.html |archivedate=12 September 2013 }}</ref> His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of [[electromagne .../press_coverage.html#Press5 |title=Brainy young James wasn't so daft after all |last1=McFall |first1=Patrick |date=23 April 2006 |work=The Sunday Post |pu
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• Isaac Newton
  ...]]") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the [[scientific revolution]]. His book ''[[Philo ...[Charles Marie de La Condamine|La Condamine]], and others, thus convincing most [[Continental Europe]]an scientists of the superiority of [[Classical mecha
  109 KB (15,996 words) - 15:04, 19 July 2017
• Phonograph
  ...c [[phonograph record]] was the dominant audio recording format throughout most of the 20th century. From the mid-1980s on, phonograph use on a standard re ...phonographs (more often known since the 1940s as '''record players''' or, most recently, '''turntables'''<ref>Names "record player" and "turntable" have g
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