A Remarkable Unnoticed Theorem in Special Relativity
โ Scribed by Alladi Ramakrishnan
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 213
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-247X
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โฆ Synopsis
We demonstrate a striking theorem imbedded in the Lorentz Transformation, unnoticed explicitly since the birth of Special Relativity in 1905, connecting Time Dilatation, Lorentz Contraction, and non-simultaneity as we shift from one frame to another. We start by expressing the theorem in words aphoristically as Dialated Time Minus Contracted Time s Time Interval Representing Non-simultaneity.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
We dedicate this paper to Andrzej Kossakowski on the occasion of his 70 th birthday. This paper, which is meant to be a tribute to Minkowski's geometrical insight, rests on the idea that the basic observed symmetries of spacetime homogeneity and of isotropy of space, which are displayed by the spac