By Neil Ashby, David F. Bartlett, Walker Wyss
ISBN-10: 0521384281
ISBN-13: 9780521384285
This quantity comprises the court cases of the 12th triannual foreign convention on basic Relativity and Gravitation, the most advantageous convention for presentation and dialogue of recent rules in relativity and cosmology. the amount will include the invited talks in addition to brief stories at the parallel workshops that came about on the assembly. it will likely be crucial studying for all learn employees in relativity, cosmology and astrophysics.
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Pais, op. , pp. 185-186. A. Einstein, “Principe de relativité et ses consequences dans la physique moderne,” ASPN, 29 (1910), pp. 5-28 and 125-244. 93 A. Einstein, “Relativitätstheorie,” VNGZ, 56 (1911), pp. 1-14; by the same author “Relativitätstheorie,” in: Die Physik, ed. E. Lecher (Leipzig: Teubner, 1915), pp. 702– 713. 91 92 Einstein Denies the Existence of the Ether (1905-1916) 39 In his further works Einstein presented a more or less developed historical sketch of the best-known hypotheses and models of the ether, and a brief description of the experiments of Fizeau and MichelsonMorley.
405-420. 42 Einstein and the Ether Einstein’s attitude toward Lenard changed radically after Lenard delivered his paper Ether and Matter104 at the Academy of Science in Heidelberg on June 4, 1910. Lenard defended the concept of the ether. In his opinion, the ether was necessary to explain numerous phenomena, particularly electromagnetism and gravitation. In Lenard’s view, the ether was not a continuous substance, but something discrete. It consisted of parts (Ätherteile) which he called cells (Zellen).
In both systems all bodies, irrespective of their shape and composition, will fall in vacuum with the same acceleration γ. In two such systems, gravitational phenomena appear identical, as do mechanical, optical, and electromagnetic phenomena. These phenomena are equally influenced by the field of acceleration in one system and the field of gravitation in the other system. It was the first time that Einstein had shown how the gravitational field and acceleration influenced the spatial shape of bodies, the working of clocks, and electromagnetic processes.