It's just one of those historical flukes that arose because the unit of
charge and the field strength had already been defined before Maxwell.
So another "constant" appeared relating them.
Brent
On 10/29/2024 1:29 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
On Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 12:59:12 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote:
The was equation was already derived from Maxwell's equations.
The pemeability and permitivity of the vacuum determined the
speed. It's perfectly natural to suppose that there is no such
thing as motion relative the vacuum (to nothing). So the speed of
light in vacuo is a constant.
Brent
If the vacuum is nothing, how can it have properties such as
permeability and permitivity? Is this scholastic type thinking? Maybe,
but it still deserves an answer. AG
On 10/28/2024 6:53 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
When the luminiferous aether was rejected as non-existing, how
was EM wave motion explained? AG
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