“Wow,” I said to Merle, as we walked away. “That was unbelievable.” I was referring to both the basketball game, and Merle’s rescue of the child’s ball. “Cute kid, isn’t she?” said Merle. “Very cute kid,” I said. “What language was that?” “I don’t know yet,” said Merle. Merle told me what the language was, […]
One of the great mysteries of Special Relativity is the Second Postulate, which is the idea that the speed of light c is a constant, independent of the relative motion of the source. This constancy is why Albert Einstein preferred to think of his theory as a theory of invariance, rather than a theory of […]
In my book The Enlightening, I make the following observation: Both Albert Einstein and H.A. Lorentz conceived of Lorentz’ Relativistic Velocity Transformation equations as describing the entire extent of the universe. This is clearly supported by Einstein’s relativity theories, including the proposed universal “speed limit” of c. Lorentz did not disagree with Einstein’s interpretation. My […]