Re: WHAT IS THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION

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From: Dan Wright
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:00

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I'm not a physicist, nor even a scientist. I forced myself 3 summers ago to
get through Einstein's 1905 paper and the subsequent work on General
Relativity. I found a book by a couple of guys published by Princeton Press
called "Understanding Relativity" that was very helpful and finally made
relativity click for me.

I think it was so helpful because only one of them was a scientist. The
other was a writer and so understood that he need to simplify if they wanted
to reach a layman audience.

(All of which makes me wonder if "Relativity for Dummies" has been written
yet and if not, why?)

Dan

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From: "Dan Wright" <danwright@iquest.net>
Subject: Re: WHAT IS THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION
Date: 2000/11/25
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