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The assumption of the contraction of the electron in Lorentz's theory must be introduced at an earlier stage than Lorentz has actually done.

— Hermann Minkowski The Fundamental Equations for Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies (1907)

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The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity.

Oh, that Einstein, always cutting lectures... I really would not believe him capable of it.

The word postulate of relativity... appears to me very stale... I should rather like to give this statement the name Postulate of the absolute world (or briefly, world-postulate).

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The whole world appears resolved into such world-lines. And I should like to say beforehand that, according to my opinion, it would be possible for the physical laws to find their fullest expression as correlations of these world-lines.

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It would be very unsatisfactory if the new way of looking at the time-concept, which permits a Lorentz transformation, were to be confined to a single part of Physics.

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