Foundations of Special Relativity
Some remarkable articles by Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond:
One more derivation of the Lorentz transformation
A derivation of the Lorentz transformations without the assumption of the constancy of the speed of light,
published in the American Journal of Physics: One_more_derivation.pdf
Les relativités
A short 79-page book, reproduced with the kind permission of the ENS Fontenay-aux-Roses.
Les relativités, Les Cahiers de Fontenay (n°8), École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, September 1977:
Les_relativites.pdf
Additivity, rapidity, relativity
An introduction to the concept of rapidity, published in the American Journal of Physics: Additivity.pdf
Article on mass,
Encyclopaedia Universalis : Masse.pdfRelativity today,
La Recherche N°96, January 1979: Relativity_today.pdfWhat if Einstein had not been there? A Gedankenexperiment in Science History
An article in English, in Proceedings of the 24th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, J.-P. Gazeau & al. (eds), Institute of Physics, London, 2003: What_if_Einstein.pdf
From relativity to chronogeometry or:
Putting an end to the “second postulate” and other fossils:
Chronogeometry.pdf
Slow down, works (intellectual),
le Nouvel Observateur, January 2001: Light.pdfEnergy after Einstein – understanding “E = mc²”
Bulletin de l’Union des Physiciens n°769, December 1994: BUP_769.pdf
Langevin twins and E=mc²
Two short texts taken from the excellent “Dictionnaire culturel des sciences”
(ed. N. Witkowski), Éditions du Regard, 2001: Twin_paradox.pdf and E=mc2.pdf
An excerpt from Laurent Nottale’s book FRACTAL SPACE-TIME AND MICROPHYSICS
A derivation of the Lorentz transformations with even fewer assumptions: A_new_derivation.pdf