Sidelights on Relativity
Albert Einstein
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Description
Albert Einstein delivered the two addresses in this small volume to learned audiences in Europe. The first, on ether and the theory of relativity, was given at the University of Leyden on May 5, 1920. The second treats geometry and experience, in a fuller form of a Berlin academy address from January 27, 1921.
Einstein asks why physicists kept faith in an ether beside solid matter. Action at a distance and the wave theory of light supply his answer's roots. Readers meet relativity from its maker's own mouth, in talks meant for scholars yet famed for their clarity of thought.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Albert Einstein |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 69 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |