Making sense of relativistic composition of velocities

Published 14 Oct 2019 in gr-qc | (1910.06785v1)

Abstract: What does it mean to ``add'' velocities relativistically -- clarification of the conceptual problems, new derivations of the related formulas, and identification of the source of the non-associativity of the standard vector version of the addition formula are addressed.

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Jerzy Kocik

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