Galilei Covariant Electrodynamics of Moving Media with Applications to the Experiments of Fizeau and Hoek
Horst E. Wilhelm
Keywords: Galilei-covariant, interferometer, Fizeau, Hoek, absolute cosmic frame
Galilei-covariant electrodynamics is generalized for moving dielectric media with motion induced polarization for dielectric permittivities e(w)>e. = 10-9/36 pi As/Vm. The interferometer experiments on light propagation in (i) flowing water by Fizeau and (ii) resting water by Hoek, relative to a terristrial laboratory frame S (which moves with a volocity v = -w ~ 3X10+5 m/s relative to the absolute cosmic frame S with isotropic light propagation) are explained quantitatively without resort to relativistic space-time concepts. The experiment of Hoek is shown to reveal a polarization effect in the induced electric ether field wXB, due to the terrestrial vacuum substratum velocity w. Thus, the Hoek experiment refutes the special theory of relativity.
