The Anomalous Origins of Einstein's Relativity Theory
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Author | Francisco J M?ller |
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Published | 2005 |
Publisher | Francisco J. M?ller |
Pages | 200 |
CONTENTS
- Prologue ii
- Chapter 1 THE HISTORICAL SCENARIO 1
- Chapter 2 THE EXPERIMENTAL SCENARIO (The Michelson-Morley experiment) 4
- Chapter 3 THE RELATIVISTIC SCENARIO (A tale of two observers) 19
- Chapter 4 THE INTRODUCTION OF EINSTEIN'S 1905 PAPER (An electromagnetic pre-detour) 33
- Chapter 5 SYNCHRONIZATION AT A DISTANCE (Section 1 of the 1905 paper) 41
- Chapter 6 SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN MOVING FRAMES 47
- Chapter 7 EINSTEIN'S "PROOF" OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION (Section 3: exposition and some clarifications) 52
- Chapter 8 CRITIQUE OF EINSTEIN'S "PROOF" IN SECTION 3 60
- Chapter 9 A POSSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF EINSTEIN'S "PROOF" IN SECTION 3. (An optional chapter) 75
- Chapter 10 SECTION 4: RELATIVISTIC CONSEQUENCES (Appearances or reality?) 87
- Chapter 11 THE REST OF THE 1905 PAPER 100
- Chapter 12 THE MASS-ENERGY RELATIONSHIP ("Dropping the bomb" in the September paper) 114
- Chapter 13 A LOOK AT SOME EXPERIMENTS 129
- Chapter 14 THE ECLIPSE OF REASON 143
- Chapter 15 BACK TO THE ORIGINS 156
- Chapter 16 THE VERDICT 183
- APPENDIX A (Annotated version of Einstein's 1905 paper selections)
- APPENDIXES B AND C (The missing steps from Eq [E1] to [E3] in Section 3)
- REFERENCES AND TECHNICAL NOTES