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{{Infobox paper
| title = A Seductive Fallacy 
| author = [[Petr Beckmann]]
| keywords = [[Lorentz Transformation]], [[Einsteins Theory of Relativity]], [[velocity of light]], [[experiment]]
| published = 1991
| journal = [[Galilean Electrodynamics]]
| volume = [[2]]
| number = [[2]]
| pages = 36-42
}}

==Abstract==

It has been claimed since at least 1910 that the Lorentz Transformation and Einstein's Theory of Relativity are derivable without using the constancy of the velocity of light as a postulate. The proof makes three (in some versions, more) very basic and natural assumptions, and derives the Lorentz transformation with a constant velocity of light as the only possible transformation between moving inertial frames that satisfies experimental observations. It is shown that the proof is flawed by illegitimately interpreting a constant that has the dimensions of a velocity as the velocity of light, and by claiming that this is the only choice confirmed by experiment.

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