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Re: Poll: Experiment that first comes to mind regarding SRT?

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Am 27.06.2023 um 16:17 schrieb Gary Harnagel:
> On Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 2:19:26 AM UTC-6, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>
>> LEO_MMX <ned.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What experiment first comes to mind when you hear the word, "Relativty"?
>>
>> None. Special relativity doesn't depend on any experiment.
>
> IMHO, Jan, all of physics depends on experiments.
>
>> It is a natural theoretical development from Maxwell's Equations.
>
> Maxwell's equations depended experiments by Faraday, Ampere,
> etc.  Maxwell added a bit to that, which was later confirmed by
> experiment.
>

Einstein based SRT not on Maxwell, but on a certain variation from 
Maxwell's equations developed by the famous German physicist Heinrich Hertz.

As Einstein provided no references whatsoever, it was difficult to 
identify the equations used by Einstein in the works of Hertz.

But as far as I can tell, the equations of Hertz differer from what 
Einstein called 'Maxwell-Hertz-equations', because Hertz used absolute 
derivatives and Einstein partial derivatives (otherwise they are quite 
similar).

Hertz and Maxwell were also 'aetherists', while Einstein rejected the 
idea of an aether.


TH

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