Marder L. Time and the Space-traveller

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974. — 210 p. — (Pennsylvania Paperback, 54). — ISBN 0-8122-7650-7, 0-8122-1054-9, 978-0-8122-1054-5.A readable, well illustrated, and often entertaining book surveying the main issues in the controversy over "time-dilation" and the "clock paradox" in Einstein's theory of relativity.Preface

Background to Relativity
Don't bring back the ether!
Michelson-Morley and all that
The invariable speed of light
Measuring length and time
Simultaneity and the synchronization of clocks
The Lorentz transformation
Moving rulers and clocks
Minkowski's four-dimensional space-timeThe Paradox of The Twins
Paradox lost
We are all of us clocks
Accelerated clocks
On visiting people elsewhereThe Doubters
The problem of acceleration
On matters of simultaneity
The Doppler effect and the k-calculus
When is a clock not a clock?
The principle of impotence
Special relativity: right or wrong?The experimental evidence
Before 1950
Mesons and the 'Fifties'
The Mossbauer effect and the 'Sixties'
The use of artifidal earth satellitesThe Clock Paradox in general relativity
The principle of equivalence
A roundabout approach to general relativity
Paradox revisitedAppendix

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