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Boomeranging through the Earth: when free fall doesn't maximize proper time
In teaching special relativity, John Bell emphasised the value of pre-relativistic intuitions. His famous spaceship puzzle showed that, in certain cases, the older heuristics of Lorentz and FitzGerald get the right answer to a genuinely relativistic problem more reliably than the principles of speci
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