At the end of the 19th century, physicists believed that light was a mechanical oscillation in a mechanical medium, th
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...electron and performed experiments to validate their ideas. The classical physicists believed that the electrical particle they discovered was a fundamental bui
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...hysical media of the gravitational field discovered by many generations of physicists around Newton. Big Bang removed the media from the Intergalactic Space (eth
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...cs). Einsteinian relativity is considered an aberration (p. 5): "They [the physicists] mistakenly believe the Lorentz Transformation, which is based on a false a
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In the 18th and 19th century, physicists were looking for a medium by means of which light propagates; they called i
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...d in textbooks, encyclopedias and scientific reviews. Therefore most physicists and philosophers are convinced that Einstein has removed the notion of the
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...ult sound paradoxical to you? It should. But it didn't strike 20th century physicists as odd, because that's what the math does, given the assumption used, and e
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...82|p=2}}</ref> In the millennium poll – a survey of the 100 most prominent physicists – Maxwell was voted the third greatest physicist of all time, behind only N
As most physicists of the time, Maxwell had a strong interest in psychology. He was particular
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...Berlin|Friedrich Wilhelms University]] in Berlin for a year of study with physicists [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] and [[Gustav Kirchhoff]] and mathematician [[Karl
...here are represented by {{math|''hν''}} and not simply by {{math|''ν''}}. Physicists now call these quanta photons, and a photon of frequency {{math|''ν''}} wil
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...the relative motion of matter in relation to the ether. And although most physicists had other views, Poincaré in 1900<ref group=A name=relation>Poincaré (1900a
...and we had said that nothing could constrain us to abandon it. Today some physicists want to adopt a new convention. It is not that they are constrained to do s
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The fact that renowned theoretical physicists like Poincaré, Boltzmann or Gibbs were not awarded the Nobel Prize is seen
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...ing directly a first-order 0.01% change in the speed of light. A number of physicists therefore attempted to make measurements of indirect first-order effects no
...ble. But the experiment gave a negative result — a fact very perplexing to physicists. Lorentz and FitzGerald rescued the theory from this difficulty by assuming
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...y"? --> 60 km/s different in the northern winter than summer). So the physicists were confronted with two seemingly contradictory experiments: the 1886-expe
Other physicists besides Lorentz and Larmor also tried to develop a consistent model of elec
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...erefore, one must either abandon the [[principle of locality]], which most physicists are reluctant to do, or accept that the electromagnetic four-potential offe
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...ley, Valentini and others to include stochastic properties. Bohm and other physicists, including Valentini, view the [[Born rule]] linking <math>R</math> to the
Bohm's paper was largely ignored or panned by other physicists. [[Albert Einstein]], who had suggested that Bohm search for a realist alte
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