query: Why do we need the second postulate in special relativity?
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positive_passages.text: Einstein's first postulate implies the second?
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negative_passages.text: What is the reasoning that leads one to postulate this second form for the relativistic particle action?
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negative_passages.text: Why does time in Minkowski's space have the opposite sign of the space coordinates?
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negative_passages.text: Curved space-time VS change of coordinates in Minkowski space
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negative_passages.text: Are gravitational time dilation and the time dilation in special relativity independent?
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negative_passages.text: Special relativity and imaginary coefficient of the time coordinate
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negative_passages.text: What is the connection between special and general relativity?
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negative_passages.text: Is it possible to prove the independence of the parallel postulate without non-euclidean geometry?
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negative_passages.text: What is the closest general-relativistic equivalent of a "time slice"?
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negative_passages.text: Why is causality preserved in special relativity?
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negative_passages.text: General relativity and the conservation of momentum
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negative_passages.text: Time dilation as an observer in special relativity
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negative_passages.text: Relativistic velocity addition from time dilation
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negative_passages.text: General relativity: is curvature of spacetime really required or just a convenient representation?
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negative_passages.text: Constraints of relativistic point particle in Hamiltonian mechanics
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negative_passages.text: Does special relativity imply that time dilation is affected by an orientation of clocks?
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negative_passages.text: Lagrangian for free particle in special relativity