English Explanatory Dictionary

emission theory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A discredited scientific theory, once considered an alternative to special relativity, proposing that light is emitted at speed c relative to its source instead of applying the invariance postulate.

Word forms

emission theory
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