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Physical Relativity
Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective
Harvey R. Brown
"Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the
heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of
relativity: that between kinematics and dynamics. Einstein himself
became increasingly uncomfortable with this distinction, and with the
limitations of what he called the "principle theory" approach inspired
by the logic of thermodynamics. A handful of physicists and
philosophers have over the last century likewise expressed doubts
about Einstein's treatment of the relativistic behavior of rigid
bodies and clocks in motion in the kinematical part of his great
paper, and suggested that the dynamical understanding of length
contraction and time dilation intimated by the immediate precursors of
Einstein is more fundamental......Appearing in the centennial year of
Einstein's celebrated paper on special relativity, Physical Relativity
is an unusual, critical examination of the way Einstein formulated his
theory. It also examines in detail certain specific historical and
conceptual issues that have long given rise to debate in both special
and general relativity theory, such as the conventionality of
simultaneity, the principle of general covariance, and the consistency
or otherwise of the special theory with quantum mechanics."

No discussion? Hypnotists? Zombies? Where are you? Why does brother
Harvey Brown say so? Lee Smolin has answered all such questions in his
famous paper:

http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.3/smolin.htm
"Einstein's Legacy -- Where are the "Einsteinians?", Lee Smolin:
"Quantum theory was not the only theory that bothered Einstein. Few
people have appreciated how dissatisfied he was with his own theories
of relativity. Special relativity grew out of Einstein's insight that
the laws of electromagnetism cannot depend on relative motion and that
the speed of light therefore must be always the same, no matter how
the source or the observer moves. Among the consequences of that
theory are that energy and mass are equivalent (the now-legendary
relationship E = mc2) and that time and distance are relative, not
absolute. SPECIAL RELATIVITY WAS THE RESULT OF 10 YEARS OF
INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE, YET EINSTEIN HAD CONVINCED HIMSELF IT WAS WRONG
WITHIN TWO YEARS OF PUBLISHING IT."

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