  It will be shown that, in comparison with the pre-relativistic
Galileo-invariant conceptions, special relativity tells us nothing new about
the geometry of spacetime. It simply calls something else "spacetime", and this
something else has different properties. All statements of special relativity
about those features of reality that correspond to the original meaning of the
terms "space" and "time" are identical with the corresponding traditional
pre-relativistic statements. It will be also argued that special relativity and
Lorentz theory are completely identical in both senses, as theories about
spacetime and as theories about the behavior of moving physical objects.
