狭义相对论——应用于天文学和加速器物理
Special Relativity -- Applications to astronomy and the accelerator physics
AI总结：
本文探讨狭义相对论的运动学本质及其与时空的关系，强调坐标变换的操作解释，指出理论中可测量与不可观测部分的区分，旨在避免因任意约定导致的不一致和悖论。
摘要：
关于经典狭义相对论的书籍众多。然而，在相对论工程和研究中花费数年后，我认为仍需一部新书。本书并非相对论教材，而是聚焦于狭义相对论运动学的本质，其与时空的关系，以及坐标变换的操作解释。每种理论都包含一些可通过实验测量的量和一些不可能被观察的表达式。每当理论中存在任意约定时，应检查理论中哪些部分依赖于该约定的选择，哪些不依赖。这种区分并不总是明确，许多作者声称某些数据是可观察的，根据任意约定，而这些约定并不对应任何物理实验。这导致了不一致和悖论，必须极力避免。
英文摘要：
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.
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