Why would the act of measurement take the absolute value rather than, say, the real component of the complex value?
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 6:44 PM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > If the speed light in a vacuum c had a real and an imaginary components > too, then the components could vary with motion but > the measured value would appear constant and correspond to the magnitude > |c|. > > c = a + ib , |c| = sqrt( a^2 + b^2) = constant > > Harry > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:45 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> A particularly intriguing notion of Konstantin Meyl's is that a "complex >> speed of light" is derivable from the conventional interpretation of the >> dielectric coefficient, rendering that conventional interpretation "an >> offense against the basic principles of physics": >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.k-meyl.de/go/Primaerliteratur/2P9_0930-1-piers-extended_field_theory.pdf >> >> This seems to be his point of departure into "fringe" physics his >> replacement of the vector potential with his derivation of the "potential >> vortex". >> > >
