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Maxwell's equations did not accommodate a moving charge and he stated so. Maxwell did not know the electron existed, but Maxwell suspected that particles might be involved, as his 1864 paper mentioned the possibility of particles acting at a distance. “The mechanical difficulties, however, which...

Mike, Have you read a rebuttal of the Hafele–Keating experiment? Hafele and Keating Travel Around the World H&K Paper 1971 I did not see any information on the characteristics of the platforms, the aircraft used, and the inflight environment. What environmental sensors were used...

"GPS clocks do not show time-of-day, they provide a precise cyclic rate." The Cesium clocks provide a constant cyclic rate. If it is necessary to provide a time-of-day display someplace, I am sure this is handled in the software. Please note the following term in the URL below, "user...

GPS clocks do not show time-of-day, they provide a precise cyclic rate. "The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) monitors the timing of the GPS to provide a reliable and stable coordinated time reference for the satellite navigation system." U.S. Naval Observatory If you brought a GPS clock...

Gravity isn't screwed up, our understanding of it is. What do we know about gravity? We do not know the mechanism by which it works. A few of its effects have been mathematically described, but we haven't identified the fundamental parameters by which it can be described, as we have with light...

One of my email communicants, an EE professor, related a communication he had with the Bonneville Power engineers. When Bonneville does maintenance on their +500,000 V and -500,000 V DC lines from Bonneville, OR to Los Angeles, they shut down the line they intend to do maintenance on and use...

One-wire power transmission lines have been used extensively in a number of countries. I do not know how many are using them currently. http://tdworld.com/mag/power_one_wire_enough/" Early telegraph and telephone systems used one-wire systems with ground as the return.

Since the professor did not give any examples of how a value that looks like \pi , and used to define the velocity of EM waves, would cause a "mess" (apparently effect our equations), I am trying to anticipate what might be his objections before I reply. I searched through many pages...

That was the general question in my original post. I don't know what "mess" the professor was referring to. Perhaps it was due to what rjb is referring...

I know why the speed of light has a particular numeric value. I can go back through science books published in the U.S. some 60 years ago and it was 186,000 miles/sec. The current value then, as it is now, is an artifact of how we define the "size" of a uinit of length and the duration of the...

It seems that one individual, and I suspect he speaks for others, thinks that the value of a dimensions "size" can make the numeric values associated with it worthless. Within the last week I had an email interchange with a Professor of Physics that stated it this way, "If Pi were...

The "size" of the SI meter has its basis in the metric system and it was officially accepted in 1799. We know its size doesn't match its intended 1/10,000,000th division from the equator to the pole, thus it is somewhat arbitrary. Even though the SI meter is defined differently its "size" is...

When you mentioned that it is usual to think of frequency in terms of decades I realized that I have to distinguish between frequency and angular frequency when I convert to wavelength, one giving "normal" wavelength and the other "angular wavelength". The definition for "angular wavelength"...

No, not a harmonic, only tens multiples or divisions. Angular frequency is the descriptive term to describe "any" result that is arrived at using 2Pi x freq. As a frequency, any result that gives a tens multiple or division of 2Pi is essentially a "generic angular frequency" for a wave. If...

Is there a descriptive term for an angular frequency that is always equal to 2Pi, differing only by a tens multiple or division? Equivalently, is there a descriptive term for the wavelength associated with the above value. Dividing any tens multiple or division of 2Pi into the speed of light...