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The Anomalous Origins of Einstein's Relativity Theory

Francisco J. M?ller

CONTENTS

Prologue ii
Chapter 1 THE HISTORICAL SCENARIO 1
Chapter 2 THE EXPERIMENTAL SCENARIO (The Michelson-Morley experiment) 4
Chapter 3 THE RELATIVISTIC SCENARIO (A tale of two observers) 19
Chapter 4 THE INTRODUCTION OF EINSTEIN\'S 1905 PAPER (An electromagnetic pre-detour) 33
Chapter 5 SYNCHRONIZATION AT A DISTANCE (Section 1 of the 1905 paper) 41
Chapter 6 SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN MOVING FRAMES 47
Chapter 7 EINSTEIN\'S \"PROOF\" OF THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION (Section 3: exposition and some clarifications) 52
Chapter 8 CRITIQUE OF EINSTEIN\'S \"PROOF\" IN SECTION 3 60
Chapter 9 A POSSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF EINSTEIN\'S \"PROOF\" IN SECTION 3. (An optional chapter) 75
Chapter 10 SECTION 4: RELATIVISTIC CONSEQUENCES (Appearances or reality?) 87
Chapter 11 THE REST OF THE 1905 PAPER 100
Chapter 12 THE MASS-ENERGY RELATIONSHIP (\"Dropping the bomb\" in the September paper) 114
Chapter 13 A LOOK AT SOME EXPERIMENTS 129
Chapter 14 THE ECLIPSE OF REASON 143
Chapter 15 BACK TO THE ORIGINS 156
Chapter 16 THE VERDICT 183
APPENDIX A (Annotated version of Einstein\'s 1905 paper selections)
APPENDIXES B AND C (The missing steps from Eq [E1] to [E3] in Section 3)
REFERENCES AND TECHNICAL NOTES