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Maxwell’s works all assume an ether so it’s not really true to state that the equations don’t need one.
by iorrus 8y ago
Maxwell’s works all assume an ether so it’s not really true to state that the equations don’t need one.
- Koshkin 8y agoThe aether is not required, assumed by or contained in the equations. Its existence was a physical hypothesis which was discarded after Einstein's work on special relativity and a multitude of related experiments.
- iorrus 8y agoFunny that Maxwell has an entire chapter named after him in the history of the ether [1] [1] https://archive.org/details/historyoftheorie00whitrich/page/n15 https://archive.org/details/historyoftheorie00whitrich/page/...