![]() ![]() In 1895 Lorentz had introduced an auxiliary quantity (without physical interpretation) called "local time" t ′ = t − v x / c 2 as a fourth imaginary coordinate, and he used an early form of four-vectors. At the same time Dutch theorist Hendrik Lorentz was developing Maxwell's theory into a theory of the motion of charged particles ("electrons" or "ions"), and their interaction with radiation. ![]() Poincaré's work at the Bureau des Longitudes on establishing international time zones led him to consider how clocks at rest on the Earth, which would be moving at different speeds relative to absolute space (or the "luminiferous aether"), could be synchronised.
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