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The Lorentz Transformation

Nature volume 158, page 62 (1946)Cite this article

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IN a letter entitled “A Simple Proof of the Lorentz Transformation” appearing in Nature1, an error has been introduced into the matrix algebra, the correction of which requires a certain recasting of the proof.

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  1. Strauss, M. D. H., Nature, 157, 516 (1946).

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HILTON, P. The Lorentz Transformation. Nature 158, 62 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158062a0

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