Space-time exchange invariance: Special relativity as a symmetry principle
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Special relativity is reformulated as a symmetry property of space-time: Space-Time Exchange Invariance. The additional hypothesis of spatial homogeneity is then sufficient to derive the Lorentz transformation without reference to the traditional form of the Principle of Special Relativity. The kinematical version of the latter is shown to be a consequence of the Lorentz transformation. As a dy...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0002-9505,1943-2909
DOI: 10.1119/1.1344165