The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity (Einstein Studies)
Contributors: Hubert Goenner (Editor); Jürgen Renn (Editor); Jim Ritter (Editor); Tilman Sauer (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780817640606
Subjects: General relativity; Relativity; General Relativity Theory; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; History; Medical-General; Science / Physics; Science / Relativity; Science-History; General relativity (Physics)
First sentence: THE RECEIVED HISTORICAL VIEW OF GENERAL RELATIVITY tells US that, at the end of the nineteenth century, physicists accepted Newton's law of gravitation: there is an attractive force between any pair of bodies in the world, and this force depends only on the masses of those bodies and on their mutual distance.