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Re: [Phys-l] three central misconceptions about relativity

Quoting John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>:

That's unfair to Poincaré and Lorentz, it's spectacularly unfair
to Galileo and Minkowski, and it's a disservice to students.

Especially in the introductory class, students should be given
the best available information, not something that was the best
guess for a couple of years, more than 100 years ago.


Many physicists have also contributed in understanding E = mc2, such as J. J. Thomson (1881), Oliver Heaviside (1888), George Frederick Charles Searle (1897), Wilhelm Wien (1900), Max Abraham (1902), and Hendrik Lorentz (1904), Max Planck…

The students could be playing with their iphone 4S instead of listening…