La hipótesis del cuanto de luz y la relatividad especial ¿Por qué Einstein no las relacionó en 1905?

AUTOR(ES)

Cassini, Alejandro, Levinas, Marcelo Leonardo

FONTE

Scientiae Studia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

We attempt to determine why Einstein did not mention his article on light-quanta hypothesis, written in March 1905, in his formulation of Special Relativity, devised just three months later. The main reasons we have found are the following: Einstein's different attitudes towards the existence of ether and absolute space; his permanent commitment to the ontological primacy of the electromagnetic field; the non-classical properties he ought to attribute to light-quanta; his hesitant stance about Maxwell electrodynamics as a complete and definitive representation of physical reality and at the same time, his suspection that a possible wave/particle duality would not lead to an unsolvable difficulty; his unstable and uncompromised attitude with respect to atomism; the more conservative, though less intuitive, character of Special Relativity; the different interpretation of the epistemological status of both theories and the marked differences in their formulation.

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