ISBN: 1397804862451 Sidelights on Relativity (1 items)

Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein ISBN-13: 9780486245119 ISBN-10: 048624511X Publication Date: 7/1/1983 Publisher: Dover Publications Paperback 5.35 x 8 inches, 56 pages Two influential essays: Ether and Relativity (1920) discusses properties demanded of the ether of space by the theory of relativity; Geometry and Experience (1921) describes the limits within which the Euclidean or any other practical geometric system can be held to be approximately true in connection with the concept of a finite universe. ------------------------- In 1905, a German technical journal, Annalen der Physik, published a remarkable paper by a young clerk in the patent office at Berne, Switzerland. The clerk was Albert Einstein. The paper outlined his Special Theory of Relativity, a revolutionary physical theory which discarded the concept of absolute motion in favor of relative motion in the context of a four-dimensional continuum of space-time. It proved to be the most profound revolution in physics since… Read more