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Can anyone recommend any good reading on Maxwell's demon? I'm mostly looking for things at the undergraduate level, but I don't mind something less rigorous or more advanced. (Apologies to the mods if this is in the wrong forum.)

When I say everything, I mean can we explain all the phenomena that arises due to special relativity on the basis of just these facts. So, if we can predict all the phenomena of special relativity from the spacetime structure, and everything about spacetime can be derived from these facts, then...

Personally, I found that it went too in-depth with concepts that were easy to understand, and then went over the more difficult concepts pretty quickly.

s2 = t2 - x2 - y2 - z2 This equation is covariant (Lorentz covariance). The interval "s" is invariant (Lorentz invariance). Can you derive everything in special relativity from these facts? Or am I mistaken about that?

They didn't give us a physics textbook in high school, at least not that I remember. The one my university recommends in University Physics, but I'm personally not a fan of that one.