Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979ssct....2..439z&link_type=abstract
Speculations in Science and Technology, vol. 2, Oct. 1979, p. 439-456, 459; Reviewer Comments, p. 456, 457; Author's Reply, p. 4
Physics
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Earth Magnetosphere, Michelson Interferometers, Reference Systems, Relativity, Geocentric Coordinates, Magnetosheath, Maxwell Equation, Orbital Mechanics, Theoretical Physics
Scientific paper
Taking the position that the reference frames in electrodynamics are only properly chosen on the basis of Maxwellian fields rather than the inertial frames borrowed from mechanics, and that the terrestrial magnetosphere is necessarily the rest frame for all experiments of electromagnetic sort performed within the bounds of the magnetosheath, this paper re-examines those critically evolutionary stages of relativistic physics from Arago and Fresnel to Michelson and Morley. The historic 'ether wind' problem is seen to resolve itself in a simple manner anticipated by Stokes, a new model arises for stellar aberration, and the long history of null registrations in experimental physics searching for the orbital motion - widely believed to require, let alone support, the Special Theory of Relativity - is shown instead to stand merely as proof of the geocentric rest frame of the magnetosphere.
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