Quanta: The Originality of Einstein's Approach to Relativity?
History and Philosophy of Physics
2012-11-29 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We suggest that not only quanta may have played a role in Einstein's ideas on relativity, but that they themselves may be related to the dynamical and relativistic behaviour of the electromagnetic field exhibited in a Poincar\'e's 1900 paper, in particular to the identical transformation law of energy and frequency for bounded plane waves.
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@article{arxiv.1211.6584,
title = {Quanta: The Originality of Einstein's Approach to Relativity?},
author = {Christian Bracco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6584},
year = {2012}
}