absolute motion

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work of Poincaré

  • Babylonian mathematical tablet
    In mathematics: Mathematical physics

    …sense in a concept of absolute motion; all motion was relative. Poincaré thereupon gave an elegant mathematical formulation of Lorentz’s ideas, which fitted them into a theory in which the motion of the electron is governed by Maxwell’s equations. Poincaré, however, stopped short of denying the reality of the ether…

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