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• Principle of relativity
  ...ty called [[energy]] will be [[conservation of energy|conserved]]. In this light, relativity principles make testable predictions about how nature behaves, ...principle combined with the principle of the independence of the speed of light (in vacuum) from the motion of the source. These two principles were reconc
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• Gravitation, Electgromagnetism and Cosmology: Toward a New Synthesis
  ...roper functioning of the TAI system does not imply the one-way isotropy of light on the moving Earth. This means that the second postulate of Special Relati
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• David Tombe
  ...ly be solved by obtaining a deeper understanding of the physical nature of light. Reading ahead I saw that the linkage between optics and electromagnetism w ...lain the constancy of the speed of light. I reject the ballistic theory of light, and on those grounds Prof. Waldron and I parted company, but not before he
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• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...result was negative, in that the expected difference between the speed of light in the direction of movement through the presumed aether, and the speed at ...umed that even a vacuum must be filled with aether. Because the [[speed of light]] is so large, and because material bodies pass through the ''aether'' with
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• Lorentz ether theory
  ...ns, and changes in this field can propagate not faster than the [[speed of light]]. Lorentz theoretically explained the [[Zeeman effect]] on the basis of hi ....) With the help of this concept Lorentz could explain the [[aberration of light]], the Doppler effect and the [[Fizeau experiment]] (i.e. measurements of t
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• Lorentz transformation
  ...of light]] is the same in all inertial reference frames. The invariance of light speed is one of the [[postulates of special relativity]]. ...the result of attempts by Lorentz and others to explain how the speed of [[light]] was observed to be independent of the [[frame of reference|reference fram
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• History of special relativity
  ...s, during the 19th century the wave theory of light as a disturbance of a "light medium" or [[Luminiferous ether]] was widely accepted, the theory reaching ...and [[inductance]], named [[Maxwell's equations]]. He first proposed that light was in fact undulations ([[electromagnetic radiation]]) in the ''same'' aet
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