狭义相对论的数学表述

Thematerialinthisbookispresentedinalogicalsequenceratherthanahistoricalsequence.Thus,wefeelobligatedtosketchbrieflythehistoryofthespecialtheoryofrelativity.ThebrilliantexperimentsofMichelsonandMorleyin1887demonstratedtheastonishingfactthatthespeedoflightisindependentofthestateofrelativelinearmotionofthesourceoflightandtheobserverofthelight.ThisfactnecessitatesthemodificationoftheusualGalileantransformation(betweentworelativelymovingobservers),whichtacitlyassumesthattimeandspaceareabsolute.