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- 119 -different frame of reference to freely moving electromagneticwaves.There is something disturbing about participating in aconference that concerns the theme "Physical Interpretations ofRelativity Theory". Why should a theory need physicalinterpretation when it owes its recognized existence to its reputedacclaim for having 'explained' a whole series of physicalphenomena? Or are we to presume that the theory of relativity islacking in some respects? Are we to oelieve that relativity ismerely an empirical mathematical formalism that somehow provides aunique but abstract correlation of what is observed but now needsto be transformed into real physics to give it substance?This conference has the stated intention of reviewing thefruitfulness of 'orthodox' relativity, as developed from theEinstein- Minkowski formulation, and to suggest how history andphilosophy of science clarify the relationship between the acceptedrelativistic formal structure and the various physicalinterpretations associated with it. The outcome of such debatecould, therefore, be the conclusion that 'orthodox' relativity isindeed very fruitful in explaining what we all know it purports toexplain and has a particularly sound physical basis of a specificnature. However, the very fact that a conference such as this canbe convened some 83 years after Einstein first presented hisSpecial Theory of Relativity suggests that no definitive conclusionof this kind Is to be expected. There Is clearly a great measureof uncertainty and, in some measure, dissatisfaction with therelativistic theory. Otherwise, we would be content to regard thesubject as closed, much as we do with regard to the theory ofthermodynamics.One can approach this subject by asking questions which areconventionally regarded as within the province of relativity andthen discussing the conventional response. The issues of thepreferred frame or the clock oaradox are Drline candidates in such d