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I have been reading in my book on Special Relativity (A. P. French, Chapman & Hall) that stellar abberation as discovered by Bradley, only made sense to physicists at the time in the context of a wave/ether model of the propagation of light IF the Earth moved with respect to the ether.
I don't really understand why this is the case, it seems to me as though abberation would occur even if the Earth were stationary w.r.t. the ether from the wave/ether perspective... anyone can shed some light on why this is the case?
EDIT: Oh god, I just realized the horrible (unintended) pun I made at the end there, sincere apology...
I don't really understand why this is the case, it seems to me as though abberation would occur even if the Earth were stationary w.r.t. the ether from the wave/ether perspective... anyone can shed some light on why this is the case?
EDIT: Oh god, I just realized the horrible (unintended) pun I made at the end there, sincere apology...
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