A Whiff of Ether (1887)

Alan A. Grometstein

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Roots of Things, 1999, pp 93-143 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract With the acceptance of Young’s TSE, with the visual evidence of Fresnel’s bright spot, and with Foucault and Fizeau’s demonstration that light moves more slowly in water than in a vacuum, three mighty blows had been struck for the wave theory of light. By the latter part of the 19th century, few leading scientists could be found who insisted on particles.

Keywords: Coriolis Effect; Billiard Ball; Fringe Shift; Billiard Table; Uniform Translation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4877-5_4

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