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Sidelights on Relativity

by Einstein Albert

Professional & Technical » Professional Science » Physics » Relativity

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Albert Einstein. Who doesn’t know his name! Famous physicist, he changed our views on life, the way we see everything around us. He got the Noble Prize for physics and was called the person of the century by Times.
For sure you have heard about him and know all these as well as his merry face showing you a tongue… But do you know the Theory of Relativity?.. You sure?.. If you are interested, this book is for you.

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...mechanical interpretation ofMaxwell's laws of the electro-magnetic field. The laws were clearand simple, the mechanical interpretations clumsy and contradictory. Almost imperceptibly the theoretical physicists adapted themselvesto a situation which, from the standpoint of their mechanicalprogramme, was very depressing. They were particularly influencedby the electro-dynamical investigations of Heinrich Hertz. Forwhereas they previously had required of a conclusive theory thatit should content itself with the fundamental concepts which belongexclusively to mechanics (e. G. Densities, velocities, deformations, stresses) they gradually accustomed themselves to admitting electric andmagnetic force as fundamental concepts side by side with those ofmechanics, without requiring a mechanical interpretation for them. Thus the purely mechanical view of nature was gradually abandoned. But this change led to a fundamental dualism which in the long-runwas insupportable. A way of escape was now...