Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
§ 1. The groundwork of the present paper is a general transformation of Maxwell's equations. As relativist speculation had its origin in a simple transformation, it was to be expected that something more would result when the general transformation was explored: the determining influence has proved stronger than I had anticipated.
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* Parabolic motion is always reducible to uniform linear motion. Thus if x = ut, z = wt the transformation makes , or and also
* It may be of use to give the Christoffel symbols for this case. They are