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kent davidge
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I'm reading the online version of a book that says
On a second guess, perhaps the author takes the view that SR is only for constant speeds in the same sense that one could say that Newtonian mechanics is only for inertial frames, in that only in inertial frames Newton's law works.
If that is the case, then the part I quoted above is not wrong.
Rindler observer comes right into my mind when I read this. So I think the book is wrong. What do you all think?SRT is only valid if observers move at fixed velocities with respect to each other. To handle observers whose relative velocities may vary requires the more general but also more complex GRT
On a second guess, perhaps the author takes the view that SR is only for constant speeds in the same sense that one could say that Newtonian mechanics is only for inertial frames, in that only in inertial frames Newton's law works.
If that is the case, then the part I quoted above is not wrong.