Comment of the Day: Jim Bales: Special Relativity Is Bake...

Comment of the Day: Jim Bales: Special Relativity Is Baked into Maxwell's Equations: "Relativity is so baked into Maxwell's Equations that, in the '80s (I believe) some people who don't believe in Relativity started their own Journal entitled 'Galilean Electrodynamics'...



...in the realization that they needed a non-relativistic version of Maxwell's Equations if they were going to convince anyone not already convinced that Einstein was wrong. To the best of my knowledge, they have yet to succeed. (Note that, at times, Physicists may refer to quasi-static approximations of Maxwell's equations as "Galilean Electrodynamics". This is not the same thing as the "Einstein was Wrong" crowd's use of the term!)...






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