Applications of Galilei covariant electrodynamics to vacuum substratum phenomena in absolute space and time

摘要

The Galilei covariant generalizations of the EM field equations (1984) (including moving media), Schroedinger, and Dirac (1985, 1993) equations for inertial frames S(w) with substratum velocity ware reviewed. By G-covariant electrodynamics, physical variables, e.g., rod length, clock rate, particle mass, momentum, and energy are G-invariants, determined by the object velocity v−w ⩵ vo ⩵ G−inv relative to the substratum frame, So(w⩵0) [v⩵object velocity relative to observer in S(w)]. Galilean measurements using standard (i) contracted rods and (ii) retarded clocks, anisotropic light propagation, and conservation of EM energy and momentum in IFs S(w) are discussed. Fundamental experiments are formulated which permit measurement of substratum (w) induced EM and charge fields, the substratum velocity w, and verification of the G-invariance of the magnetic field, B ⩵ Bo ⩵ G−inv. The G-invariant Lagrangian and Hamiltonian of a charged particle in EM fields, and the momentum and energy conservation equations in particle collisions are given for velocities |v−w|c(w) and (ii) vacuum for |v−w|>c0. are relative to the substratum So, -n-nand demonstrate the anisotropy of the vacuum in IFs S(w). G-covariant electrodynamics (relative to substratum) contains Lorentz covariant electrodynamics (relative to observer) in the special case w⩵0 (S0).