论文标题
特殊相对论 - 适用于天文学和加速器物理学
Special Relativity -- Applications to astronomy and the accelerator physics
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论文摘要
有很多关于特殊相对论经典主题的书。但是，在花了很多年的时间，在相对论工程和研究中，我得出的结论是，有一个新书的地方。我确实相信，本书与其他书不同，主要是由于试图在黑暗的角落贴上灯光。我应该清楚这本小书不是什么。这不是相对论理论的教科书。这本书的目的是特殊相对论运动学的本质，其与时空的关系以及坐标转换的操作解释。每个理论都包含许多数量，可以通过实验测量，而表达式无法观察到。每当我们有一个包含任意惯例的理论时，我们都应研究该理论的哪些部分取决于该惯例的选择以及哪些部分没有。根据任意约定，这种区别并非总是如此，许多作者声称某些数据是可以观察到的，这些数据与任何物理实验不符。这导致不一致和悖论应不惜一切代价避免。
There are many books on the classical subject of special relativity. However, after having spent a number of years, both in relativistic engineering and research with relativity, I have come to the conclusion that there exist a place for a new book. I do believe that the present book is not quite the same as the others, mainly due to attempt to cast light on dark corners. I should make it clear what this little book is not. It is not a textbook on relativity theory. What the book is about is the nature of special relativistic kinematics, its relation to space and time, and the operational interpretation of coordinate transformations. Every theory contains a number of quantities that can be measured by experiment and an expressions that cannot possibly be observed. Whenever we have a theory containing an arbitrary convention, we should examine what parts of the theory depend on the choice of that convention and what parts do not. The distinction is not always made and many authors claim some data to be observable, according to arbitrary conventions, which do not correspond to any physical experiment. This leads to inconsistencies and paradoxes that should be avoided at all cost.
