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• Principle of relativity
  ...ference frame cannot determine an absolute speed or direction of travel in space, and may only speak of speed or direction relative to some other object. ...ough not in Poincaré's) by a re-examination of the fundamental meanings of space and time intervals.
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• Galilean transformation
  ...p of motions]] of [[Galilean relativity]] action on the four dimensions of space and time, forming the '''Galilean geometry'''. This is the [[active and pas ...the intuitive notion of addition and subtraction of velocities as [[vector space|vectors]].
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• Hendrik Lorentz
  ...connects with this the idea (which I would abandon only reluctantly) that space and time are completely different things, and that there is a "true time" ( |title = The evolution of space and time
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• Hermann Minkowski
  ...diagram]]<br /> [[Minkowski's question mark function]] <br /> [[Minkowski space]] ...(1905), could be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "[[Minkowski spacetime]]".
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• Jean-Pierre Vigier
  ...aul Wigner, A O Barut, Alwyn Van der Merwe, Jean-Pierre Vigier: ''Quantum, space, and time — the quest continues: studies and essays in honour of Louis de ...tary Particles Considered as Relativistic Extended Structures in Minkowski Space'', Phys. Rev. vol.&nbsp;129, no.&nbsp;1, pp.&nbsp;438–450 (1963) ([http:/
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• Lorentz ether theory
  ...at time to identify the rest frame of the Lorentz aether with the absolute space of [[Isaac Newton]].<ref group=B>Born (1964), 172ff</ref> The condition of ...y [[ad hoc]]. It is also important that this contraction only affected the space between the electron but not the electrons themselves, therefore the name "
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• Henri Poincaré
  ...the Earth, which would be moving at different speeds relative to absolute space (or the "[[luminiferous aether]]"), could be synchronised. At the same time ...his transformation to one of Maxwell's equations, that for charge-occupied space, and also questioned the time dilation factor given by Lorentz.<ref name="u
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• David Tombe
  ...was <em>"In a few years' time they'll get a Michelson interferometer into space, they'll get fringes, and the whole Einstein thing will fall through"</em>. ...hysical structure of this medium would need to be. He proposed that all of space is filled with a sea of molecular vortices comprised of tiny aethereal whir
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• Inertial frame of reference
  ...e''', '''inertial frame''', '''Galilean reference frame''', or '''inertial space'''.{{cn|date=June 2017}} ...ly, a coordinate system could describe the simple flight of a free body in space as a complicated zig-zag in its coordinate system. Indeed, an intuitive sum
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• Lorentz transformation
  ...gine that in each inertial frame there are observers positioned throughout space, each endowed with a synchronized clock and at rest in the particular inert ...ilean transformation]] of [[Newtonian physics]], which assumes an absolute space and time (see [[Galilean relativity]]). The Galilean transformation is a go
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• History of special relativity
  Although [[Isaac Newton]] based his physics on [[absolute time and space]], he also adhered to the [[principle of relativity]] of [[Galileo Galilei] ...ted the Lorentz transformations by changing the fundamental definitions of space and time intervals, while abandoning the absolute simultaneity of Galilean
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• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...kinematic]] foundation of the theory and the modification of the notion of space and time, with the stationary aether no longer playing any role in his theo | style="white-space:nowrap;"| Herrmann ''et al.''<ref name=Herrmann2 />||2009 || Similar to Her
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