Could Galileo have worked out the principles of the modern theory of relativity? Could he, even in the mid-seventeenth century, have derived the Lorentz transformations, the existence of a fundamental ...

Physicists know that Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity in 1911, that James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932, and that Edwin Hubble discovered the expansion of the Universe in ...

Special relativity derives directly from the principle of relativity and from Newton's laws of motion with a single undetermined parameter, which is found from Faraday's and Ampère's experimental work ...