Re: Is a Crystal-clear Theory Preferable to Dogmatic Riddles?
From: Tom Roberts (tjroberts_at_lucent.com)
Date: 09/20/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:47:49 GMT
[I have not been watching this thread, but happened to see this.]
Creighton Hogg wrote:
> Essentially he takes
> Galilean transformations, and then does a change of variables to put it in
> the form of the Lorentz transformation, then claims to have derived the
> Lorentz transformation from the Galilean transformation.
That is _PRECISELY_ the structure of Lorentz's 1904 paper. Except, of
course, he did not call the result the "Lorentz transformation" (:-)).
It's reprinted in Dover's book:
Einstein et al, _The_Principle_of_Relativity_.
Tom Roberts tjroberts@lucent.com
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