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..... slow clocks, masses
increasing, and lengths contracting (probably didn't say this last), IS that
these are the perceived phenomenon for someone coming from the Newtonian
model.
The basic concepts of Special Relativity are invariance (tying together all
the energy and momentum concepts from earlier in the course) and the
mass-energy identity.
Length contrraction and time dilation as a consequence
of the constancy of the speed of light