https://htsod.github.io/tags/special-relativity/ Recent content in Special Relativity on ButterCat https://htsod.github.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://htsod.github.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.123.7 en Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://htsod.github.io/posts/maxwell_eqns_derive/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://htsod.github.io/posts/maxwell_eqns_derive/ Can the order of physics discovery be differernt? From Zee Einstein’s Gravity in a nutshell, a hypothetical situation is proposed: a far away civilization where life was evolved from modular planet happen to understand the constancy of light before understanding electromagnetism. A brilliant physicist then could derived E.M. and gravity from the correct conception of space and time. The derivation was casted in a simplisitc manner: By placing the potential term either inside or outside the action square root, we obtain the familiar interactions of gravity or electromagnetism, with major concepts left unexplained.