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> Named after French physicist Georges Sagnac, this optical effect rooted in Einstein's theory of general relativity works It's not true at all.

• kurthr 8y ago
  Yeah, maybe special relativity...
  • v_lisivka 8y ago
    Linear Sagnac effect (light grabbed by linear uniform motion) contradicts Special Relativity too.
    • v_lisivka 8y ago
      https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0609235 https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0609235
• holstvoogd 8y ago
  The first paragraph of the wikipedia article on the Sagnac effect has the word relative in it, soo, must be relativity or something. Besides, it sounds cool! >_<
  • v_lisivka 8y ago
    Quote from Wikipedia: > Georges Sagnac set up this experiment to prove the existence of the aether that Einstein's theory of special relativity had discarded Yes, world "relativity" is present here.