Published December 1976
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Journal article
Consistency of the postulates of special relativity
Description
In a recent article in this journal, Kingsley has tried to show that the postulates of special relativity contradict each other. It is shown that the arguments of Kingsley are invalid because of an erroneous appeal to symmetry in a nonsymmetric situation. The consistency of the postulates of special relativity and the relativistic kinematics deduced from them is restated
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1007/bf00708946;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Foundations of Physics
- Journal Volume
- 6
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Series
- Found. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 677-680
- ISSN
- 0015-9018
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 8316239
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COORDINATES; ERRORS; KINETICS; RELATIVITY THEORY; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY
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