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Prof. Marco Mamone Capria
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Prof. Marco Mamone Capria (Abstracts)
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  • Newtonian Physics and General Relativity (1996) [Updated 7 years ago]

    Three hundred and sixty years after Descartes's Discours de la Methode we may be tempted to think that our science has by now reached a stage in which the "clear and distinct ideas" are no more an ideal, but a safe possession of any scientifically learned man. Descartes was right in questioning the whole received knowledge of his time, but - it is often assumed - science at the end of the XX century does not require any such radical treatment. One of the roots of this kind of complacency is the opinion that contemporary science progresses by absorbing smoothly and new discovery, so that the more recently accepted theory in any field contains, in some sense, all the worth the precedent theories could boast of. In this statement there are many concepts that need clarification, but we shall dwell only on the idea of the new theory as 'containing' the achievements of the past. The meaning of this is by no means clear, and on the whole historical record belies any naive interpretation...


  • On the Michelson-Morley Experiment (1994) [Updated 1 decade ago]

  • Symmetries and Asymmetries in Classical and Relativistic Electrodynamics (1991) [Updated 7 years ago]
    by Umberto Bartocci, Marco Mamone Capria   read the paper:

    By a comparison between maxwell's electrodynamics classically interpreted (MT) and relativistic electrodynamics (RED), this paper discusses whether the "asymmetries" in MT mentioned by A. Einstein in his 1905 relativity paper are only of a conceptual nature of rather involve specific empirical claims. It is shown that in fact MT predicts strongly asymmetric behaviour for very simple interactions, and an analysis is made of the extent of the ?symmetry? achieved by means of relativistic postulates. A "low" velocity experiment is suggested which could provide another test of the accuracy of RED with respect to MT.


  • Some Remarks On Classical Electromagnetism and the Principle of Relativity (1991) [Updated 7 years ago]
    by Umberto Bartocci, Marco Mamone Capria   read the paper:

    In connection with a note by Rindler on relativity and electromagnetism, it is shown that classically interpreted electromagnetism and special relativity already diverge in their predictions on the behavior of a very simple electrodynamical system, even for 'low' velocities.