Article ID: CBB000933625

Getting Rid of the Ether: Could Physics Have Achieved It Sooner, with Better Assistance from Philosophy? (2007)

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Assuming, with Hasok Chang, that the history and philosophy of science can contribute to scientific knowledge, particularly when it is a matter of disposing of groundless or useless notions, I examine the case of the luminiferous ether, and seek to ascertain what factors may have kept it alive until 1905, when Ein-stein declared it superfluous. Keywords: ether, lines of force, Maxwell-Lorentz electrodynamics, special relativity.

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Authors & Contributors
Blai Pié i Valls
Polak, Paweł
Sussman, Nathaniel F.
Bradley, Clara
Rinat Magdievich Nugayev
Romero-Maltrana, Diego
Concepts
Physics
Relativity, special
Philosophy of science
Electrodynamics
Ether
Quantum mechanics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
Poland
Institutions
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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