For people like me who prefer “Idiot’s Guide” books to textbooks – This episode covers the discovery of the so-called “Lorentz Transformations”. These equations, which finally offered a potential answer to the questions raised by the Michelson-Morley experiments, would eventually lead to Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Prelude to Einsten’s Theory II – The Findings of Henry Lorentz (2/3)
Written by admin on September 1st, 2010 in Textbooks.
Tags: Einsten's, Findings, Henry, Lorentz, Prelude, Theory
What an incredible human achievement. How beautiful and paradoxical that such complex, anti-common-sense results, such as time and space dilation/contraction, follow from the simple idea that the laws of physics apply equally to all frames of reference in uniform motion anywhere in the universe.
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