Sidelights on Relativity

By Einstein, Albert

Book Id: WPLBN0000624599
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Sidelights on Relativity
Author:	Einstein, Albert
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: 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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Sidelights on Relativity, 1 -- Albert Einstein, 1 -- ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, 1 -- GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE, 6