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The 60th anniversary of Einstein’s Special Theory seems to be an appropriate occasion to ask ourselves the question: how do we look upon this theory today, in particular, do we still believe in
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the truth of the two principles used by Einstein to establish the Lorentz group (LG), and
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the necessity of using them for this purpose.
Contribution to Internationales Seminar über Probleme der relativistischen Physik, organized by the Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut der Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena and held in Georgenthal, February 15–27, 1965. Reprinted from Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 15 (1966), 109–118.
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Strauss, M. (1972). The Lorentz Group: Axiomatics — Generalizations — Alternatives. In: Modern Physics and its Philosophy. Synthese Library, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2893-6_14
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