investigation . . . They are not necessary to special relativity or to the relativity of simultaneity.” See also Alberto Martinez, “Material History and Imaginary Clocks,”
6 (2004): 224–240; Alberto Martinez, “Railways and the Roots of Relativity,”
,Nov. 2003; Norton 2004. For a good assessment, which gives more credit to Galison’s research and insights, see Dyson. Also see Miller 2001.
51
. Einstein interview, Bucky, 28; Einstein 1956, 12.
52
. Moszkowski, 227.
53
. Overbye, 135.
54
. Miller 1984, 109, 114. Miller 1981, chapter 3, explains the influence of Faraday’s experiments with rotating magnets on Einstein’s special theory.
55
. Einstein, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,”
17 (Sept. 26, 1905). There are many available editions. For a web version, see www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/. Useful annotated versions include Stachel 1998; Stephen Hawking, ed.,
(Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002); Richard Muller, ed.,
The Theory of Relativity (San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005).
56
. Einstein, unused addendum to 1916 book
, CPAE 6: 44a.
57
. Einstein 1916.
58
. Bernstein 2006, 71.
59
. This example is lucidly described in Miller 1999, 82–83; Panek, 31–32.
60
. James Hartle, lecture at the Aspen Center for Physics, June 29, 2005; British National Measurement Laboratory, report on time dilation experiments, spring 2005, www.npl.co.uk/publications/metromnia/issue18/.
61
. Einstein to Maurice Solovine, undated, in Solovine, 33, 35.
62
. Krauss, 35–47.
63
. Seelig 1956a, 28. For a full mathematical description of the special theory, see Taylor and Wheeler 1992.
64
. Pais, 1982, 151, citing Hermann Minkowski, “Space and Time,” lecture at the University of Cologne, Sept. 21, 1908.
65
. Clark, 159–60.
66
. Thorne, 79. This is also explained well in Miller 2001, 200: “Neither Lorentz, Poincare, nor any other physicist was willing to grant Lorentz’s local time any physical reality . . . Only Einstein was willing to go beyond appearances.” See also Miller 2001, 240: “Einstein inferred a meaning Poincare did not. His thought experiment
