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Already in 1864 Maxwell (1864, 1865) published his fundamental equations of electromagnetism that contain a central natural constant: the vacuum speed of light c. Later, it was found by experiments that the vacuum speed of light velocity c obeys a principle of constancy. This principle of the constancy of the speed of light in vacuum has a harmless part, as well as a critical one. It says that c is independent of light frequency, amplitude and polarization, as well as the speed of light-source.
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Soffel, M.H., Han, WB. (2019). Relativity. In: Applied General Relativity. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19673-8_4
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