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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
1 - Familiar Examples of Relativity
Does Every Statement Have a Meaning?
Right and Left
Is It Day or Night Just Now?
Who Is Bigger?
The Relative Seems Absolute
The Absolute Proves To Be Relative
“Common Sense” Tries To Protest
2 - Space Is Relative
The Same Place or Not?
How Does a Body Move in Reality?
Are All Points of View Equivalent?
Rest Is Found!
The Laboratory at Rest
Is the Train Moving?
Rest Is Lost For Good
The Law of Inertia
Speeds Too Are Relative!
3 - The Tragedy of Light
Light Does Not Spread Instantaneously
Can the Speed of Light Be Altered?
Light and Sound
The Principle of Relativity of Motion Seems To Be Shaken
“World Ether”
A Difficult Situation Arises
Experiment Must Decide
The Principle of Relativity Triumphs
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
4 - Time Proves To Be Relative
Is There in Fact a Contradiction?
We Go on a Train Journey
Common Sense in Disgrace
Time Suffers the Same Fate as Space
Science Triumphs
Speed Has a Limit
Earlier and Later
5 - Clocks and Rulers Play Tricks
We Get on the Train Again
Clocks Go Slow Systematically
The Time Machine
Journey to a Star
Objects Get Shortened
Velocities Play Tricks
6 - Work Changes Mass
Mass
Mass Increases
Summing Up
Index
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