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Non-Postulated Relativity by Lev Lomize
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After graduation, he worked at the Institute of Radio and Electronics of the USSR, and then, the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineers.
In 1961, he recieved the Russian equivalent of a Ph.D., and he took part in developing and launching the 100 Mev injector of the Serpukhov synchrotron in the 1960s as well as the Russian analog of the Los-Alamos Meson facility of the 1970s.
In 1991, the Russian version of this book was published under the name "From High School Physics to Relativity." This book was written after a life time of searching for an explanation of special relativity, which would answer childish questions, such as "What makes the moving rod shorter and the moving clock slow? If the postulates somehow do it, what is the mechanism they use for doing so?"
The first hint came out when I was conducting my early theoretical research on the electromagnetic radiation of a bunched beam of charged particles. With the Maxwell equations taken as a starting point for the derivations, I decided to “simplify” the problem by neglecting relativistic “corrections” which were supposed to be made later on. To my extreme surprise, the relativistic “corrections” turned up from the derivations automatically – just by themselves – as though Maxwell had known about relativity. Neither did Newton know about relativity when formulating his universal laws of motion, which are successfully used all over the world in the computations on beam dynamics of relativistic bunches of particles whose speed is very close to that of light. It was Newton who had formally treated the mass in his second law as though it could depend on the velocity. Time and again I had a great pleasure to track down the classical way of explaining relativistic effects without using Einstein’s postulates.
At the first stage of this research, I regarded it as a part of my self-education. But in 1974, I suddenly discovered that I was not alone in my attempts to build a bridge between classical physics and relativity. E.L.Feinberg, one of the best scientific minds in Russia, involved in his research in the field of quantum electrodynamics, spared some of his valuable time to clarify the issue. Supported by V.L.Ginzburg and other theorists from the Lebedev Institute of Physics (Moscow, USSR), in 1974, he published a clear and instructive article devoted to this topic. A thorough inspection of the literature revealed a very interesting history of the issue, starting even from Einstein himself. This inspection convinced me of the need for a new special book that would explain the main relativistic effects in terms of classical physics. “Non-Postulated Relativity” has been written as a fair approximation to it. Only the aberration of light and the longitudinal Doppler effect were not included here in order not to distract the reader from the main ideas.
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