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| Mar 11, 2011 at 17:14 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Mar 9, 2011 at 0:31 | comment | added | Ken Knox | Your comment reminded me that all of this is explained beautifully in an address Minkowski made in 1908 called "Space and Time." I haven't found it online but it is published in the Dover book titled "The Principle of Relativity." In the article Minkowski gives a mathematical way to go from Newtonian mechanics to SR and also argues that one should not treat space and time separately. | |
| Mar 8, 2011 at 22:00 | comment | added | kakaz | It is interesting to note, that axiom 1. may be reformulated in more mathematical fashion: "Transformation between any two inertial reference frames is linear affine transformation of coordinates". If this is assumed, then in theory there exists parameter which has dimension of velocity, and it is universal for all observers. This gives us Poincare group of symmetry. Then we may look for theory with such symmetry built in, and it is realized in Maxwell Equations and discovered parameter is equal to speed of light in vacum. | |
| Mar 8, 2011 at 19:12 | history | answered | Ken Knox | CC BY-SA 2.5 |