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Article #7136Re: Special Relativity in the 21st century
From: shuba
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:15
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:15
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Laurent wrote:
> You can even replace by the more intuitive assumption "there exists a
> maximal speed", but I have no proof at hand right now[1].
Even that can be shown to be a result of the relativity principle.
> [1] If someone has a reference, I accept :)
A.R. Lee and T.M. Kalotas, "Lorentz transformations from the
first postulate", American Journal of Physics 43:5 (1975).
"We present in this paper a derivation of the Lorentz
transformation by invoking the principle of relativity
alone, without resorting to the a priori assumption of the
existence of a universal limiting velocity. Such a velocity
is shown to be a necessary consequence of the first
postulate, and the fact that it is not infinite is borne out
by experiment."
Also see section 11.10 beginning on page 38 of the following book
chapter.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic192578.files/chap11.pdf
---Tim Shuba---
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