https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2008-00062-x
Ether drift experiments and electromagnetic momentum
1
Centro de Física Fundamental, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, 5101 Mérida, Venezuela
2
Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
3
Centro de Física dos Plasmas, IST, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
4
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400746, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904, USA
Corresponding authors: a spavieri@ula.ve - b vguerra@ist.utl.pt - c gtg@virginia.edu
Received:
22
May
2007
Revised:
8
February
2008
Published online:
4
April
2008
Propagation of Aharonov-Bohm matter waves and light waves in moving media is characterized by the interaction electromagnetic momentum. Thus, recent models of light propagation in moving rarefied media justify and call for an optical experiment of the Mascart-Jamin type, capable of testing the modern interpretations of ether drift experiments.
PACS: 03.30.+p – Special relativity / 03.65.Ta – Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory / 01.55.+b – General physics / 42.15.-i – Geometrical optics
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
