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Preface of 2009 to "The Velocity of Light in Uniformly Moving Frames"
Abstract
This preface gives a brief historical background to my 1958 Stanford Ph.D. thesis, The Velocity of Light in Uniformly Moving Frames. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the early 1950's. I thought that by modifying the Lorentz Transformation (L.T.) so as to keep a particle's momentum finite at the speed of light, one could solve the divergence problem of QED, and allow for faster-than-light motion. However, after criticisms by eminent physicists, before and after resuming graduate studies at Stanford, this approach was finally abandoned in favor of a truncated version of the L.T. called the Absolute Lorentz Transformation (A.L.T.) that is consistent with Einstein's principle of general covariance, the metric postulate, and experiment.
Ref: The Abraham Zelmanov Journal, 2009, volume 2, pages 29-43
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