How Einstein Abolished the Aether - With John Spence

How Einstein Abolished the Aether - With John Spence

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Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-1896). First accurate measurement

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Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-1896). First accurate measurement

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How Einstein Abolished the Aether - With John Spence

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

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