Relativity without light
Abstract
The relativistic addition law for parallel velocities is derived directly from the principle of relativity and a few simple assumptions of smoothness and symmetry, without making use of the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- February 1984
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1984AmJPh..52..119M
- Keywords:
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- 03.30.+p;
- Special relativity