Dr Faustus of Modern Physics - Department of Speech, Music and ...
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Chapter 36<br />
Relativity: Einstein<br />
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass <strong>of</strong> innumerable stars planted<br />
together in clusters. (Galileo)<br />
36.1 Lorentz<br />
• I call the variable t ′ “local time” <strong>and</strong> emphasize that it should not be<br />
confused with real time.<br />
• Length contraction <strong>and</strong> time dilation are ways <strong>of</strong> regarding things <strong>and</strong><br />
do not correspond to physical reality. (Max Born, the inventor <strong>of</strong> the<br />
statistical interpretation <strong>of</strong> the wave function)<br />
• Lorentz: A transformation <strong>of</strong> the time was necessary. So I introduced<br />
the conception <strong>of</strong> a local time which is different for all systems <strong>of</strong> reference<br />
which are in motion relative to each other. But I never thought<br />
that this had anything to do with real time. This real time for me was<br />
still represented by the old classical notion <strong>of</strong> an absolute time, which<br />
is independent <strong>of</strong> any reference to special frames <strong>of</strong> coordinates. There<br />
existed for me only this true time. I considered my time transformation<br />
only as a heuristic working hypothesis(Lorentz)<br />
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