Text: The history of physics. This book contains the following assertion: "Terrestrial measurements give systematically a value for the velocity of light which is higher than that obtained by means of astronomical methods; the reason for this is unknown." Implies that the speed of light in a hard vacuum on the surface of the earth is greater than the speed of light in a hard vacuum in deep space, and that the speed of light in vacuum is not a constant after all. This accords with the scalar electromagnetics view, where the speed of light in vacuum depends on the intensity of the virtual particle flux that comprises that vacuum. On earth, the vacuum charge is greater due to the extra virtual particle flux from the charged particle masses of the earth. Moscow: Mir, 1970. [Translated from Russian).

See Also: foundations of physics, velocity of light, relativity, vacuum, scalar electromagnetics, ether, anomalous phenomena.

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