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| ====== Galilean Relativity and the Lorentz Contraction ====== | ====== Galilean Relativity and the Lorentz Contraction ====== | ||
| [[http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/timmaudlin.html|Tima Maudlin]] | [[http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/timmaudlin.html|Tima Maudlin]] | ||
| - | \\<fs 75%> //Department of Philosophy, New York University<\fs>// | + | \\ <fs 75%> //Department of Philosophy, New York University//</fs> |
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| It is often said that one of the fundamental principles of both classical physics and Relativity is Galilean relativity or the equivalence of all inertial frames. I will discuss the precise phenomenon that Galileo remarked in On The Two Chief World Systems, and the relation of that phenomenon to both coordinate transformations and to symmetries of space-time. This yields two different ways to address the question of whether the Lorentz contraction in Relativity is a physical effect. | It is often said that one of the fundamental principles of both classical physics and Relativity is Galilean relativity or the equivalence of all inertial frames. I will discuss the precise phenomenon that Galileo remarked in On The Two Chief World Systems, and the relation of that phenomenon to both coordinate transformations and to symmetries of space-time. This yields two different ways to address the question of whether the Lorentz contraction in Relativity is a physical effect. | ||