We went through the Maxwell v=c calculation to remind you how “clean” it is. Nevertheless, people tried to “fix” it. Of several tries, one of the “best” was by Ritz (1908), who kept the two Maxwell’s equations for vacuum, but changed the equations involving potentials due to charges to give v=c relative to the original source. For example,
We went through the Maxwell v=c calculation to remind you how “clean” it is. Nevertheless, people tried to “fix” it. Of several tries, one of the “best” was by Ritz (1908), who kept the two Maxwell’s equations for vacuum, but changed the equations involving potentials due to charges to give v=c relative to the original source. For example,
He showed that in this theory, when light is reflected from a mirror, it remains coherent (good!) and keeps the velocity of c relative to the original source. Experiments with moving mirrors differ only by (v/c)2.