It would be highly unsatisfactory if the new conception of the notion of time, which is characterized by the freedom of Lorentz transformations, could be accepted as valid for only a subfield of physics. [98]
Now, many authors state that classical mechanics is opposed to the relativity postulate, which has been taken here to be the foundation of electrodynamics.
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Minkowski, H. (2007). Mechanics and the Relativity Postulate. In: Janssen, M., Norton, J.D., Renn, J., Sauer, T., Stachel, J. (eds) The Genesis of General Relativity. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 250. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4000-9_20
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