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How Einstein Abolished the Aether - With John Spence
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- 1 Intro
- 2 What medium supports the propagation of starlight across the emptiness of outer space?
- 3 Transit of Venus - measuring the earth-sun distance 1761/9
- 4 Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-1896). First accurate measurement
- 5 Leon Foucault (1819-1868). The best experimentalist
- 6 Faraday and Field Theory
- 7 James and Katherine Maxwell in 1869 with dog Toby
- 8 Laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable (1857) Kelvin explains Why doesn't Morse code arrive at speed of Light
- 9 Does light pick up the speed of the passing Aether, like water waves in a river with a current ?
- 10 Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- 11 Light-sensitive protein wriggles when absorbing a photon.
- 12 On mathematics and physics: Or what stuff does an electric field in vacuum consist?
