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| title = Hoek, Fizeau, and Einstein's Special Relativity | | title = Hoek, Fizeau, and Einstein\'s Special Relativity | ||
| url = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100619032422/http://www.wbabin.net/babin/fizeau.pdf Link to paper (Internet Archive)] | |||
| author = [[Walter Babin]] | | author = [[Walter Babin]] | ||
| keywords = [[Hoek]], [[Fizeau]], [[Special Relativity]], [[Einstein]] | | keywords = [[Hoek]], [[Fizeau]], [[Special Relativity]], [[Einstein]] | ||
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'''Read the full paper''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100619032422/http://www.wbabin.net/babin/fizeau.pdf here] ''(archived copy — the original link is no longer available)'' | |||
==Abstract== | ==Abstract== | ||
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| Scientific Paper | |
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| Title | Hoek, Fizeau, and Einstein\'s Special Relativity |
| Read in full | Link to paper (Internet Archive) |
| Author(s) | Walter Babin |
| Keywords | Hoek, Fizeau, Special Relativity, Einstein |
| Published | 2008 |
| Journal | General Science Journal |
| No. of pages | 4 |
Read the full paper here (archived copy — the original link is no longer available)
Abstract
One of the principal concerns of early experimenters in electromagnetism was the detection of a carrier for light waves (the aether). Theories in the mid 1800's ranged from that of Stokes, where it was assumed the aether was completely carried along by matter, to Fresnel and partial convection, to Maxwell and the universal aether, where light did not participate in the motion of matter in the slightest. The main problem in resolving the issue lay in an inability to obtain accuracy greater than first order in terrestrial experiments, because of the exceedingly small ratio between the velocities attainable for material objects and that of light (v/c).