Tutorial Reading List
The Michelson-Morley Experiment
Brown, Harvey R (2001). `The origins of length contraction: I. The FitzGerald-Lorentz deformation', American Journal of Physics.
[ PhilSci ]
The Twin "Paradox"
C.E. Dolby & S.F. Gull, 'On radar time and the twin ``paradox'' ', American Journal of Physics 69 (2001): 1257--61.
[ AJP online ]
John D. Barrow and Janna Levin, `Twin paradox in compact spaces', Phys. Rev. A 63 (2001)
[ PRA on-line ]
Carl H. Brans and Dennis Ronald Stewart, `Unaccelerated-Returning-Twin Paradox in Flat Space-Time', Phys. Rev. D 8 (1973): 1662–-6.
[ PRD on-line ]
Geometric Explanation
Harvey R. Brown & O. Pooley, `The origin of the spacetime metric: Bell's `Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity' in C. Callender & N. Huggett (eds) Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (CUP, 2001).
[ Preprint: gr-qc/9908048 ]