PIRSA:06070037  ( Flash Presentation , Windows Presentation , Windows Video File , MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): N. David Mermin

Abstract: I will show Abner how to construct Minkowski's space-time diagrams directly from Einstein's two postulates and some very elementary plane geometry. This geometric route into special relativity was developed while teaching the subject to nonscientists, but some of its features may be unfamiliar to physicists and philosophers.

Date: 18/07/2006 - 9:15 am

Collection: Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle - 2006

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