On the other hand I have no trouble imagining consistent theories that are approximately but not exactly Lorentz invariant ( such as a luminiferous aether ! ).
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He wrote another famous paper in 1864 under the title of A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in which the details of the luminiferous medium were less explicit.
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In the early 20th century the scientific consensus was that there existed an absolute frame of reference, which was given the name " luminiferous ether ".
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In the late 19th century, the term luminiferous aether, meaning light-bearing Greek ?????, from a root meaning to kindle, burn, or shine.
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As already noted herein Faraday, and before him, Amp�re and others, had inklings that the luminiferous ether of space was also the medium for electric action.
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This matter was raised in October, but certain people argued that'empty space'is an adequate term to use even when referring to the luminiferous medium.
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For example, materialism tends to be eliminativist about the soul; modern chemists are eliminativist about phlogiston; and modern physicists are eliminativist about the existence of luminiferous aether.
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Poynting initially gave a description of the effect in 1903 based on the " luminiferous aether " theory, which was superseded by the theories of relativity in 1905 1915.
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In this diagram the red lines represent the world lines of clocks that have a velocity with respect to the luminiferous ether of 2 / 5 the speed of light.
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People sometimes claim that the luminiferous aether destroyed the principle of relativity in Newtonian physics, but there was never any justification for identifying the luminiferous aether with absolute space.
