The last consequence is that clocks will appear to be out of phase with each other along the length of a moving object. This equation can be derived directly and validly from the time dilation result with the assumption that the speed of light is constant. Minkowski's contribution appears complicated but is simply an extension of Pythagoras' Theorem: The modern approach to relativity Īlthough the special theory of relativity was first proposed by Einstein in 1905, the modern approach to the theory depends upon the concept of a four-dimensional universe, that was first proposed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908. 4 A spacetime representation of the Lorentz Transformation.
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