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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