Open AccessGetting rid of the Ether. Could Physics have achieved it sooner, with better assistance from Philosophy?
Author(s) -
Roberto Torretti
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
theoria an international journal for theory history and foundations of science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2171-679X
pISSN - 0495-4548
DOI - 10.1387/theoria.457
Subject(s) - einstein , ether , epistemology , philosophy , theoretical physics , physics , chemistry , organic chemistry , mathematical physics
The history of the luminiferous ether is sketched with a view to ascertaining what factors may have kept this idea alive until 1905, when Einstein declared it superfluous
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