Concept
Special relativity
Overview
physical theory of measurement in an inertial frame of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.
This point of view resembles nothing so much as the White Knight’s “plan to dye my whiskers green, and always use so large a fan that they could not be seen.” The odd thing was that the plan worked well enough. Later on, when Einstein propounded his special theory of relativity (1905), it was found that the theory was in a certain sense correct, but only in a certain sense. That is to say, the supposed contraction…
Bertrand Russell, The A B C of Relativity
Close in meaning to Special relativity; the term itself is not named.
We call this postulate “The Special Relativity Principle.” By the word special, it is signified that the principle is limited to the case, when K′ has _uniform translatory_ motion with reference to K, but the equivalence of K and K′ does not extend to the case of non-uniform motion of K′ relative to K. The Special Relativity Theory does not differ from the classical mechanics through the assumption of this…
Albert Einstein, The Principle of Relativity
Names Special relativity several times; opens on Special relativity.
Einstein showed how to express the characters of the assemblage of elements of impetus of the field surrounding an event-particle E in terms of ten quantities which I will call J_{11}, J_{12} (=J_{21}), J_{22}, J_{23}(=J_{32}), etc. It will be noted that there are four spatio-temporal measurements relating E to its neighbour P, and that there are ten pairs of such measurements if we are allowed to take any one…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
Close in meaning to Special relativity; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Special relativity
- Nuel Belnap
- Moritz Schlick
- David Malet Armstrong
- Periodic table
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Luce Irigaray
- Hilary Putnam
- David Hume
Related ideas
- Addison-Wesley
- General relativity
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Imaginary number
- Isaac Newton
- Gravitational field
- Luminiferous aether
- Mass
- Classical mechanics
- Maxwell's equations
- Velocity
- Physics
- Photon
- Quantum mechanics
- Quantum field theory
- Quantum gravity
- Roger Penrose
- Pythagorean theorem
- String theory
- Galilean invariance
- Speed
- Spacetime
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Galileo Galilei
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.