Tantalising asymmetries in special relativity (Q1069156)
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Tantalising asymmetries in special relativity (English)
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1985
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This short and elementary paper deals with the special relativistic addition law for collinear velocities. The author investigates the behaviour of this formula under transformations \(v\mapsto c^ 2/v\), which turns velocities smaller than c into velocities larger than c, and vice versa.
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addition law
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velocities
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