Henri Bergson: Half-Relativity – Lorentz Equations (12)

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So would Paul speak. And at the same time he would have established the famous “transformation equations” of Lorenz, equations which, moreover, if we place ourselves at the more general point of view of Einstein, do not imply that the … Read More

Henri Bergson: Half-relativity – Michelson-Morley experiment (8) – Dislocation of simultaneity

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What will happen when operators respectively placed at 0 and at A want to measure the speed of light by noting, on the clocks tuned together which are at these two points, the moment of departure, the moment of arrival, … Read More

Henri Bergson: Half-relativity – Michelson-Morley experiment (6) – Measuring time

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More generally, let us still call S a system immobile in the ether, and S’ a double of this system, which first coincided with it and then detaches itself in a straight line with the speed v. While S’ contracts … Read More

Henri Bergson: Half-relativity – Michelson-Morley experiment (5) – The speed of light

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But we should also know why we ourselves, in our turn, measuring the speed of light by terrestrial experiments such as those of Fizeau or Foucault, we always find the same number c, whatever the speed of the Earth relative … Read More

Henri Bergson: Half-relativity – Michelson-Morley experiment (1)

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The theory of relativity, even “restricted”, is not precisely based on the Michelson-Morley experiment, since it expresses, in a general way, the need to preserve the laws of electromagnetism in an invariable form when passing from one system of reference … Read More