Einstein's misgivings about his 1905 formulation of special relativity
When Einstein formulated his 1905 treatment of relativistic kinematics, the template in his mind was thermodynamics. This was because a more desirable 'constructive' account of the behaviour of moving rods and clocks, based on the detailed physics governing their microscopic constitution,...
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Institute of Physics Publishing
2005
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