Space-Time
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Resources
- General
- Einstein
- Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper. Albert Einstein. Annalen der Physik. Vol. 322 No. 10 (1905): 891–921. On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. Translated by George Barker Jeffery and Wilfrid Perrett.
- Relativity: the Special and General Theory. Albert Einstein. London: Methuen (1916). Translated by Robert W. Lawson (1920).
- A Brief Outline of the Development of the Theory of Relativity. Albert Einstein. Nature. Vol. 106 No. 2677 (1921): 782–784.
- History
- Galileo and Einstein. Michael Fowler. University of Virginia.
- Special Relativity. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Time dilation
- Performance and Results of Portable Clocks in Aircraft. J.C. Hafele. Proceedings of the Third Annual Department of Defense (DoD) Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Strategic Planning Meeting. (1971): 261-288. DTIC Accession Number: ADA489971.
- Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains. J.C. Hafele and Richard E. Keating. Science. Vol. 177 No. 4044 (1972): 166–168.
- Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Observed Relativistic Time Gains. J.C. Hafele and Richard E. Keating. Science. Vol. 177 No. 4044 (1972): 168–170.
- Video on demand
- Brady Haran
- What are special and general relativity? Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2010). More viewer questions, this time dealing with relativity and constants.
- Time Dilation. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2011). The twins paradox, muons and special relativity are among the issues in this video about the symbol gamma, which can represent the Lorentz factor.
- Relativity Paradox. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2013). Trains, tunnels, muons and giant guillotines — strange things happen when you travel close to the speed of light. Discussing relativity, time dilation and Lorentz contraction.
- Why is time slower in rockets? Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2013). The third in our gamma trilogy — this time Professor Mike Merrifield goes into the mathematics!
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)
- The Michelson Morley Experiment. In 1887, an exquisitely designed measurement of the Earth's motion through the ether results in the most brilliant failure in scientific history.
- The Lorentz Transformation. If the speed of light is to be the same for all observers, then the length of a meter stick, or the rate of a ticking clock, depends on who measures it.
- Velocity and Time. Einstein is motivated to perfect the central ideas of physics, resulting in a new understanding of the meaning of space and time.
- The Fatal Flaw in the Star Trek Universe. Star Ship Icarus 2. Cracked.com (2014).
- Brady Haran