• What is now often called Lorentz ether theory (LET) has its roots in Hendrik Lorentz's "theory of electrons", which marked the end of the development...
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    coefficients and physical assumptions. Lorentz and FitzGerald offered within the framework of Lorentz ether theory a more elegant solution to how the motion...
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  • acceleration of electrons. Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald offered, within the framework of Lorentz ether theory, an explanation of how the Michelson–Morley...
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    the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz transformation of the special theory of relativity, as well as the Lorentz force, which describes the combined...
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  • simultaneity" can be achieved, in order to simulate the basic assumption of Lorentz ether theory. That is, in one frame the one-way speed of light is chosen to be...
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  • principle of relativity". Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1904) created a detailed theory of electrodynamics (Lorentz ether theory) that was premised on the existence...
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  • the theory of special relativity in 1905, building on many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri...
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    Maxwell–Lorentz electromagnetic theory, in which he contended that the theory's connection with the luminescent ether (see Lorentz ether theory) made it...
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    History of the theories of ether and electricity from 1953, E. T. Whittaker claimed that relativity is the creation of Poincaré and Lorentz and attributed...
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  • time Apparent solar time Local time (mathematics) Local time in the Lorentz ether theory Standard time UTC GMT Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University...
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    thought experiments physical cosmology Relativistic Euler equations Lorentz ether theory Moving magnet and conductor problem Shape waves Relativistic heat...
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  • property of ionizing radiation's interactions with matter Lorentz ether theory, a scientific theory LET solution or gel, a topical anesthetic consisting of...
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  • with Lorentz ether theory and the electron theory of that time, in which the electrical constitution of matter was assumed. In 1900 Hendrik Lorentz wrote...
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  • speed of light is constant. Without assuming the second postulate, the Lorentz transformations can be obtained. However, there is a free parameter k,...
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  • synchronizations are much more complicated, and those other models (such as Lorentz ether theory) are based on extreme and implausible assumptions concerning some...
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    studying the conflict between the action/reaction principle and Lorentz ether theory, he tried to determine whether the center of gravity still moves...
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  • experiment in accordance with Maxwell's equations, Lorentz in 1892 developed a model ("Lorentz ether theory") in which the aether is completely motionless...
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    formed.” Parallel to the development of Lorentz ether theory, Larmor published an approximation to the Lorentz transformations in the Philosophical Transactions...
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  • verify the time dilation effect, predicted by Larmor–Lorentz ether theory, due to motion through the ether using Einstein's suggestion that Doppler effect...
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    electromagnetism, the Lorentz force law is the combination of electric and magnetic force on a point charge due to electromagnetic fields. The Lorentz force, on the...
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  • velocity. This was further elaborated by Hendrik Lorentz (1899, 1904) in the framework of Lorentz ether theory. He defined mass as the ratio of force to acceleration...
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  • Lorentz resolved this contradictory situation in his own aether theory, which banished any form of aether dragging. Albert Einstein's special theory of...
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  • relativity (see History of Lorentz transformations and Lorentz ether theory). A more modern example of deriving the Lorentz transformation from electrodynamics...
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    consequence, within Lorentz ether theory the Galilean transformation was replaced by the Lorentz transformation. However, in Lorentz aether theory the existence...
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  • noticed the similarity between this test theory and Lorentz ether theory of Hendrik Lorentz, Joseph Larmor and Henri Poincaré. Though Mansouri, Sexl, and...
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    Michelson–Morley experiment (category Aether theories)
    relativistic values. Albert Einstein formulated the theory of special relativity by 1905, deriving the Lorentz transformation and thus length contraction and...
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    own rest frame. It is also known as Lorentz contraction or Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction (after Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald) and is...
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  • named after the physicists Max Abraham and Hendrik Lorentz. The formula, although predating the theory of special relativity, was initially calculated for...
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  • effect is consistent with stationary ether theories (such as the Lorentz ether theory) as well as with Einstein's theory of relativity. It is generally taken...
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  • Maxwell-Lorentz electromagnetic theory, in which he contended that the theory's connection with the luminiferous aether (see Lorentz ether theory) made...
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