drag hypothesis proposed that the luminiferous aether is dragged by or entrained within moving matter. According to one version of this hypothesis, no...

luminiferous aether, rather than a spatial vacuum, provided the theoretical medium that was required by wave theories of light. The aether hypothesis was the...

observed no effect. His results seemingly supported the partial aether-drag hypothesis of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, a situation that was disconcerting to...

that aether wind caused by earth drag cannot be demonstrated. The existence of the aberration of light was inconsistent with aether drag hypothesis. The...

demonstrates that aether drag is invisible around rapidly moving celestial bodies. 1895 – Lorentz proposes independently the Contraction Hypothesis. 1902 to 1904...

Gustaf Wilhelm Hammar (1935) to test the aether drag hypothesis. Its negative result refuted some specific aether drag models, and confirmed special relativity...

according to which the aether was fully dragged in the vicinity of the Earth (see Aether drag hypothesis). However, complete aether drag contradicts the observed...

situations in which the motion of matter might be said to drag light. This aether drag hypothesis was an attempt by classical physics to explain stellar...

and Miller. Hence Allais deduces that the aether turns with the stars, as proposed by the aether drag hypothesis, and is not fixed as Hendrik Lorentz thought...

independent of the speed of the emitter. Experiments to test the aether drag hypothesis – no "aether flow obstruction". Special relativity uses a "flat" 4-dimensional...

thought that the result confirmed the aether drag hypothesis, in which the aether is fully dragged by matter. However, other experiments like the Fizeau...

luminiferous aether, at rest relative to the "fixed stars" and through which the Earth moves. Fresnel's partial ether dragging hypothesis ruled out the...

detect the motion of Earth through the aether, but no drag was detected. A range of proposed aether-dragging theories could explain the null result but...

refractive index depended on the density of the aether was essential to Fresnel's aether drag hypothesis. But it could not be extended to birefringent crystals...

SR, like Fresnel’s hypothesis of partial aether drag, led to new experiments testing SR, like Stokes’s model of complete aether drag, were disproved or...

optical phenomena. The other hypothesis was proposed by George Gabriel Stokes, who stated in 1845 that the aether was fully dragged by matter (later this view...

assuming that the speed of the aether is smaller in greater distance. Criticism: Newton objected to the theory because drag must lead to noticeable deviations...

through the refracting water due to the aether drag hypothesis. Like all other attempts to detect aether drift or drag, Airy obtained a negative result. In...

Stokes' law. He derived an expression for the frictional force (also called drag force) exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers. His...

experiments contradicts the hypothesis of complete aether drag, as the spinning surface of the Earth experiences an aether wind. The Michelson-Morley experiment...

{\displaystyle t(\tau )={\frac {c}{g}}\sinh {\frac {g\tau }{c}}} The clock hypothesis is the assumption that the rate at which a clock is affected by time dilation...

Michelson–Morley experiment and to rescue the hypothesis of the stationary aether (Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction hypothesis). Although both FitzGerald and Lorentz...

that the hypothetical luminiferous aether, if it existed, was completely dragged by the Earth. To test this hypothesis, Oliver Lodge in 1897 proposed that...

Galilean transformation. As the hypothesis of complete aether drag, it can explain the negative outcome of all aether drift experiments. Yet, there are...

served to explain the negative result of all aether drift measurements. By that the luminiferous aether becomes undetectable in agreement with what Poincaré...

observers at rest within the aether, and "apparent" lengths and times measured by observers in motion within the aether. Darrigol summarizes: Most of...

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luminiferous aether. This separation of those two mediums was necessary, because according to his calculations the absence of any drag effect in the...

and electric magnetic waves propagate in the same aether medium (or called the luminiferous aether). It was thought at the time that empty space was filled...

the aether's hypothetical properties. Finding the luminiferous aether a useless hypothesis, Einstein in 1905 a priori unified all inertial reference frames...