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A Broader View of Relativity: General Implications of Lorentz and Poincaré Invariance

A Broader View of Relativity shows that there is still new life in old physics. The book examines the historical context and theoretical underpinnings of Einstein's theory of special relativity and describes Broad Relativity, a generalized theory of coordinate transformations between inertial r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hsu, Jong-Ping, Hsu, Leonardo
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: World Scientific 2006
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1114809
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Sumario:A Broader View of Relativity shows that there is still new life in old physics. The book examines the historical context and theoretical underpinnings of Einstein's theory of special relativity and describes Broad Relativity, a generalized theory of coordinate transformations between inertial reference frames that includes Einstein's special relativity as a special case. It shows how the principle of relativity is compatible with multiple concepts of physical time and how these different procedures for clock synchronization can be useful for thinking about different physical problems, includin