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Scientific Paper
TitleSpecial Relativity as an Evolution of Classical Physics
Author(s)Giuseppe Antoni
Published1989
JournalNone
No. of pages7
Pages1-7

Abstract

Einstein arrived to the Special Theory of Relativity by basing it on the principle of relativity, which he extended to electro-magnetic phenomena, and on the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light.  Starting from these presuppositions, he arrived on the following well-known formulae of Lorentz, which had already been obtained by Poincare in the theory of the fixed ether.