Author : Ludwik Kostro
Publisher : Apeiron
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : IND:30000092792120
Einstein and the Ether
Ludwik Kostro
Einstein And The Ether
Einstein And The Ether Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Einstein And The Ether book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The ether of Albert Einstein
Robert Jobard
Author : Robert Jobard
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782322455959
The ether of Albert Einstein by Robert Jobard Pdf
If you ask a physicist to explain ether to you, he will either be embarrassed or he will say that ether does not exist, that it was rejected by Einstein in 1905. But, in1921, Einstein published "The ether and the theory of relativity". After his theory of general relativity, he became aware of the problem posed by deformable space and gravitational waves. He conferred with other physicists and recognized the existence of the Lorentz's ether, with no physical characteristics except immobility. An immobility that Einstein removed, if not a relative immobility in relation with the referential from which it is observed. We have found a hypothesis that could explain this mysterious movement : the speed of light would be everywhere the same because the ether would be seen as motionless everywhere. This hypothesis is very simple, and we propose experiments that are also quite simple to verify it.
Sidelights on Relativity
Albert Einstein
Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547178316
Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sidelights on Relativity" by Albert Einstein. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Frontiers of Fundamental Physics
M. Barone,F. Selleri
Author : M. Barone,F. Selleri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461525608
Frontiers of Fundamental Physics by M. Barone,F. Selleri Pdf
The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about hundred scientists who carryon their research in conceptually important areas of physical science (they do "fundamental physics"). Most of them were physicists, but also historians and philosophers of science were well represented. An important fraction of the participants could be considered "heretical" because they disagreed with the validity of one or several fundamental assumptions of modern physics. Common to all participants was an excellent scientific level coupled with a remarkable intellectual honesty: we are proud to present to the readers this certainly unique book. Alternative ways of considering fundamental matters should of course be vitally important for the progress of science, unless one wanted to admit that physics at the end of the XXth century has already obtained the final truth, a very unlikely possibility even if one accepted the doubtful idea of the existence of a "final" truth. The merits of the Olympia conference should therefore not be judged a priori in a positive or in a negative way depending on one's refusal or acceptance, respectively, but considered after reading the actual of basic principles of contemporary science, new proposals and evidences there presented. They seem very important to us.
The Genesis of General Relativity
Jürgen Renn
Author : Jürgen Renn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402040009
The Genesis of General Relativity by Jürgen Renn Pdf
This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein’s 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today’s major historians of science. Additional sources from Einstein and others, who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development, are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity.
The Fascinating Life and Theory of Albert Einstein
Walter C. Mih
Author : Walter C. Mih
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1560727861
The Fascinating Life and Theory of Albert Einstein by Walter C. Mih Pdf
Albert Einstein was a great scientist and a seasoned philosopher with keen insight into the world around us. This book is a biography of Albert Einstein with a strong emphasis on his philosophy and theories. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is a masterpiece of science that greatly increases our understanding of the universe and profoundly influences our world. The goal of this book it to help to understand Einstein's theory as well as his philosophy.
Einstein's Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity
Galina Weinstein
Author : Galina Weinstein
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443878890
Einstein's Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity by Galina Weinstein Pdf
This book pieces together the jigsaw puzzle of Einstein’s journey to discovering the special theory of relativity. Between 1902 and 1905, Einstein sat in the Patent Office and may have made calculations on old pieces of paper that were once patent drafts. One can imagine Einstein trying to hide from his boss, writing notes on small sheets of paper, and, according to reports, seeing to it that the small sheets of paper on which he was writing would vanish into his desk-drawer as soon as he heard footsteps approaching his door. He probably discarded many pieces of papers and calculations and flung them in the waste paper basket in the Patent Office. The end result was that Einstein published nothing regarding the special theory of relativity prior to 1905. For many years before 1905, he had been intensely concerned with the topic; in fact, he was busily working on the problem for seven or eight years prior to 1905. Unfortunately, there are no surviving notebooks and manuscripts, no notes and papers or other primary sources from this critical period to provide any information about the crucial steps that led Einstein to his great discovery. In May 1905, Henri Poincaré sent three letters to Hendrik Lorentz at the same time that Einstein wrote his famous May 1905 letter to Conrad Habicht, promising him four works, of which the fourth one, Relativity, was a rough draft at that point. In the May 1905 letters to Lorentz, Poincaré presented the basic equations of his 1905 “Dynamics of the Electron”, meaning that, at this point, Poincaré and Einstein both had drafts of papers relating to the principle of relativity. The book discusses Einstein’s and Poincaré’s creativity and the process by which their ideas developed. The book also explores the misunderstandings and paradoxes apparent in the theory of relativity, and unravels the subtleties and creativity of Einstein.
Secrets of the Aether
David W. Thomson III
Author : David W. Thomson III
Publisher : The Aenor Trust
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780972425124
Secrets of the Aether by David W. Thomson III Pdf
Author David Thomson and Jim Bourassa have founded the Quantum AetherDynamics Institute, an organization dedicated to understanding the Aether. For the first time in human history, the Aether is fully quantified based upon empirical data. Through a very simple observation noted nearly 200 years ago by Charles Coulomb, the electromagnetic units have been corrected of an error that has led physics astray for so long. Now, electrodynamics expresses in simple dimensional equations, the neurosciences unite with quantum and classical physics, and we can precisely model the geometry of subatomic particles.
The Evolution of Physics
Einstein
Author : Einstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521083710
The Evolution of Physics by Einstein Pdf
Ether and Modernity
Jaume Navarro
Author : Jaume Navarro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192517807
Ether and Modernity by Jaume Navarro Pdf
Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "ether" (or "aether"), in the early twentieth century. The contributed papers show that the ether was often regarded as one of the objects of modernity, hand in hand with the electron, radioactivity or X-rays, and not simply as the stubborn residue of an old-fashioned, long-discarded science. The prestige and authority of scientists and popularisers like Oliver Lodge and Arthur Eddington in Britain, Phillip Lenard in Germany or Dayton C. Miller in the USA was instrumental in the preservation, defence or even re-emergence of the ether in the 1920s. Moreover, the consolidation of wireless communications and radio broadcasting, indeed a very modern technology, brought the ether into audiences that would otherwise never have heard about such an esoteric entity. The ether also played a pivotal role among some artists in the early twentieth century: the values of modernism found in the complexities and contradictions of modern physics, such as wireless action or wave-particle puzzles, a fertile ground for the development of new artistic languages; in literature as much as in the pictorial and performing arts. Essays on the intellectual foundations of Umberto Boccioni's art, the linguistic techniques of Lodge, and Ernst Mach's considerations on aesthetics and physics witness to the imbricate relationship between the ether and modernism. Last but not least, the ether played a fundamental part in the resurgence of modern spiritualism in the aftermath of the Great War. This book examines the complex array of meanings, strategies and milieus that enabled the ether to remain an active part in scientific and cultural debates well into the 1930s, but not beyond. This portrait may be easily regarded as the swan song of an epistemic object that was soon to fade away as shown by Paul Dirac's unsuccessful attempt to resuscitate some kind of aether in 1951, with which this book finishes.
Ether and Modernity
Jaume Navarro
Author : Jaume Navarro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192517791
Ether and Modernity by Jaume Navarro Pdf
Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "ether" (or "aether"), in the early twentieth century. The contributed papers show that the ether was often regarded as one of the objects of modernity, hand in hand with the electron, radioactivity or X-rays, and not simply as the stubborn residue of an old-fashioned, long-discarded science. The prestige and authority of scientists and popularisers like Oliver Lodge and Arthur Eddington in Britain, Phillip Lenard in Germany or Dayton C. Miller in the USA was instrumental in the preservation, defence or even re-emergence of the ether in the 1920s. Moreover, the consolidation of wireless communications and radio broadcasting, indeed a very modern technology, brought the ether into audiences that would otherwise never have heard about such an esoteric entity. The ether also played a pivotal role among some artists in the early twentieth century: the values of modernism found in the complexities and contradictions of modern physics, such as wireless action or wave-particle puzzles, a fertile ground for the development of new artistic languages; in literature as much as in the pictorial and performing arts. Essays on the intellectual foundations of Umberto Boccioni's art, the linguistic techniques of Lodge, and Ernst Mach's considerations on aesthetics and physics witness to the imbricate relationship between the ether and modernism. Last but not least, the ether played a fundamental part in the resurgence of modern spiritualism in the aftermath of the Great War. This book examines the complex array of meanings, strategies and milieus that enabled the ether to remain an active part in scientific and cultural debates well into the 1930s, but not beyond. This portrait may be easily regarded as the swan song of an epistemic object that was soon to fade away as shown by Paul Dirac's unsuccessful attempt to resuscitate some kind of aether in 1951, with which this book finishes.
Einstein's Generation
Richard Staley
Author : Richard Staley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226770574
Einstein's Generation by Richard Staley Pdf
'Einstein's Generation' offers a new approach to the origins of modern physics by exploring both the material culture that stimulated relativity and the reaction of Einstein's colleagues to his pioneering work.
Physics Before and After Einstein
M. Mamone Capria,Marco Mamone Capria
Author : M. Mamone Capria,Marco Mamone Capria
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781607501060
Physics Before and After Einstein by M. Mamone Capria,Marco Mamone Capria Pdf
It is now a century ago that one of the icons of modern physics published some of the most influential scientific papers of all times. With his work on relativity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein has altered the field of physics forever. It should not come as a surprise that looking back at Einstein's work, one needs to rethink the whole scope of physics, before and after his time. This books aims to provide a perspective on the history of modern physics, spanning from the late 19th century up to today. It is not an encyclopaedic work, but it presents the groundbreaking and sometimes provocative main contributions by Einstein as marking the line between ‘old’ and ‘new’ physics, and expands on some of the developments and open issues to which they gave rise. This presentation is not meant as a mere celebration of Einstein’s work, but as a critical appraisal which provides accurate historical and conceptual information. The contributing authors all have a reputation for working on themes related to Einstein’s work and its consequences. Therefore, the collection of papers gives a good representation of what happened in the 100 years after Einstein’s landmark Annalen der Physik articles. All people interested in the field of physics, history of science and epistemology could benefit from this book. An effort has been made to make the book attractive not only to scientists, but also to people with a more basic knowledge of mathematics and physics.
Michelson-morley Experiments: An Enigma For Physics And The History Of Science
Maurizio Consoli,Alessandro Pluchino
Author : Maurizio Consoli,Alessandro Pluchino
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813278202
Michelson-morley Experiments: An Enigma For Physics And The History Of Science by Maurizio Consoli,Alessandro Pluchino Pdf
'The book should be an interesting read for advanced students within the field and for experts working in it.'Contemporary PhysicsIn 1887, Michelson and Morley tried to observe in laboratory the 'ether drift' by measuring a small difference in the velocity of two perpendicular light beams. The result of their measurements, however, was much smaller than the classical prediction and interpreted as a 'null result'. This was crucial to stimulate the first pioneering formulations of relativity and, as such, it represents a fundamental step in the history of science. Since then, many repetitions of that original experiment have been performed with better and better sensitivity and the standard conclusion has been always the same: no genuine ether drift has ever been detected. However, in the authors' new scheme, the small irregular residuals observed in laboratory show surprising correlations with the direct observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with satellites in space. This opens the possibility of finally linking the CMB to a fundamental reference frame for relativity, with substantial implications for the interpretation of non-locality in the quantum theory. The importance of the issue would require new dedicated experimental tests and significant improvements in the data analysis. Otherwise, without such more stringent checks, these crucial experiments will remain forever as an enigma for physics and the history of science. The book illustrates the many facets of this research together with historical accounts on some leading scientists involved in these measurements.
Einstein's Opponents
Milena Wazeck
Author : Milena Wazeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107017443
Einstein's Opponents by Milena Wazeck Pdf
Exploring the ferocious opposition which once surrounded the theory of relativity, this fascinating account details the strategies and motivations of Einstein's detractors. A unique insight into the dynamics of scientific controversies, ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.
