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By Richard C. Tolman

ISBN-10: 0486495949

ISBN-13: 9780486495941

It's been the recreation of the subsequent booklet to offer an advent to this concept of relativity, which within the decade because the book of Einstein's first paper in 1905 (Annalen der Physik) has turn into an important a part of the theoretical apparatus of each physicist.

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4. Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies … ? " Isaac Newton, "Opticks" (1704 edition onwards) " By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal and who he stands still withal. " Rosalind, "As You Like It" act 3 scene 2, William Shakespeare " Space is precisely analogous with time. " "Time and Space", Edgar Allen Poe, 1844 " I have no objections to Budde's conception of space as a sort of medium … although I think that the properties of this medium should be demonstrable physically in some other manner, and that they should not be assumed ad hoc.

So, what is gravity? There are many possible answers: we might say, gravity is "a variation in the speed of light", or "a variation in the rate of timeflow or inertia", or "spacetime curvature". We might try to define it in all sorts of ways. Gravity is pretty fundamental. It existed long before we did, and long before language, so instead of trying to give a single prescriptive definition of what gravity is (by comparing it to something else), we'll try to describe what gravity does, and the way that it seems to do it, and hopefully that'll give us a good enough answer.

12 2 Gravity, Energy and Mass " Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not Bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Composition? For all fix'd Bodies being heated emit Light so long as they continue sufficiently hot, and Light mutually stops in Bodies as often as its Rays strike upon their Parts, as we shew'd above. The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

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