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THE examples considered by the theory of relativity appear to have become somewhat stereotyped, and to deal mainly with problems of optics and electrodynamics. The specification of “simultaneity” seems to be regarded as necessarily involving the use of rays of light. The following suggested examples may perhaps be of interest. They are not put forward as possible “objections” to the theory, but with the same intention as prompted the supposed “exceptions” to the second law of thermodynamics. The latter, although they did not disturb the application of the law in its proper sphere, led to drastic limitations to its general validity (e.g. the “sorting demons” of Maxwell).
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PARTINGTON, J. Relativity. Nature 106, 113–114 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106113c0
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