Sidelights on Relativity

By Einstein, Albert

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Title:	Sidelights on Relativity
Author:	Einstein, Albert
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Language:	English
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ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY. An Address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden How does it come about that alongside of the idea of ponderable matter, which is derived by abstraction from everyday life, the physicists set the idea of the existence of another kind of matter, the ether? The explanation is probably to be sought in those phenomena which have given rise to the theory of action at a distance, and in the properties of light which have led to the undulatory theory. Let us devote a little while to the consideration of these two subjects.

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Contents ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY An Address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE An expanded form of an Address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin on January 27th, 1921.