Halim Boutayeb

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Can we explain physically the results of Fizeau's experiment without Lorentz Transformations and without assumption of constancy of speed of light?

According to my analysis of a moving partially reflecting surface, I noticed that the transmitted field should be partially dragged by the moving object. I think that the same phenomenon exists in...

28 November 2016 6,460 5 View

Are there research subjects on theoretically predicted but not discovered yet phenomenon?

Electromagnetic wave is an example of phenomenon which is invisible (except for light or high power fields) and which has been discovered thanks to visible experiences with electricity and...

21 September 2016 5,824 35 View

On the history of Lorentz Transformation(s) and its (their) meaning outside special relativity

Let us suppose that special relativity does not exist. In 1887, Woldemar Voigt wrote "On Doppler's Principle". https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:On_the_Principle_of_Doppler Lorentz...

01 January 1970 5,530 72 View

Speed of light independent of the speed of the source or constant for all observers?

Dear all, What is your opinion about the following point? The second postulate of special relativity is "light is always propagated with a definite velocity c which is independent of the state...

01 January 1970 5,113 100 View

Wilhelm Wien's 1900 paper: energy mc squared formula and Weber's electrodynamics

In 1905, Einstein published a paper entitled "Does the Inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?" Wilhelm Wien responded to this question, in...

01 January 1970 470 12 View

Galileo's ship: principle of intertia or principle of relativity?

Dear all, In Wikipedia: "Galileo's ship refers to two physics experiments, a thought experiment and an actual experiment, by Galileo Galilei, the 16th- and 17th-century physicist and astronomer....

01 January 1970 3,853 6 View