Category:
Historical Papers
Sub-Category:
Relativity Theory
Keywords:
ballistic theory, Ritz, Michelson, MMX, Aether, Fizeau, Lorentz, Trouton and Noble, Fresnel, Lewis, Tolman, 2nd postulate, Stokes-Hertz, Stewart, Einstein, Abraham, Comstock, Castelnuovo, J.J. Thomson, Döppler, Faraday tubes, speed of light, Lorentz
Filename:
LaRosa_NuovoCim[trans]_sv4n1(1912)345-365.pdf
Publication:
Nuovo Cimento, ll[trans]
Comments:
Thomas Miles used Google Translate for English
Abstract:
The kinematic relations between Aether and Matter have formed for about a century, one of the most important problems of Physics.
Fresnel conceives the Aether contained in everybody as resultant of two parts: one free, endowed with the same density that the Aether of the void has, which would maintain its position in space unchanged, the other bound to the body, and dragged by it in all it movements, the which would have a density equal to (n^2 - 1)/n^2 of the total density, where n indicates the refractive index of the body.
Stokes raised forward and made a different hypothesis, which managed to explain the modest phenomena considered by Fresnel, i.e., the aberration both in the air and in other bodies, and the negative results of the research done on a possible influence of the terrestrial translation on reflection phenomena, polarization refraction: the total entrainment hypothesis of the Aether, by material bodies in motion.
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