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Re: special relativity



On Mon, 20 May 2002, Arnulfo Castellanos Moreno wrote:

From the electromagnetic theory, the speed of light
must be a constant because "c" appears as a function
of two constants: epsilon_0 and mu_0.

I don't find this by itself to be a compelling argument and
neither did a lot of very intelligent late 19th century
physicists. After all, I could (apparently) just as well say,
"From the mechanical theory the speed of waves on a given string
must be a constant because it appears as a function of two
constants: T and mu."

John Mallinckrodt mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm