How to teach special relativity by John Stewart Bell Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Originally published in Progress in Scientific Culture 1(2), 1976; reprinted in Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics. Pages 67–68 discuss the spaceship thread; pages 69–77 develop and interpret a dynamical charged-particle example. The warning about premature philosophizing occurs in note 10 on pages 79–80, after the discussion of replacing a concrete calculation by a general change-of-variables argument. The numerical-computation recommendation there is more specific than a blanket rejection of geometrical explanations.
On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox by John Stewart Bell Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Physics Physique Fizika 1, 195–200. Sections II–V formulate local response functions and compare their correlations with the spin-singlet predictions.