The Expanding Worlds of General RelativityHubert Goenner, Jürgen Renn, Jim Ritter, Tilman Sauer Springer Science & Business Media, 1 de des. 1998 - 512 pàgines The past decade has seen a considerable surge of interest in historical and philo sophical studies of gravitation and relativity, due not only to the tremendous amount of world-wide research in general relativity and its theoretical and observational consequences, but also to an increasing awareness that a collaboration between working scientists, historians and philosophers of science is, in this field, partic ularly promising for all participants. The expanding activity in this field is well documented by recent volumes in this Einstein Studies series on the History of General Relativity as well as by a series of international conferences on this topic at Osgood Hill (1986), Luminy (1988), and Pittsburgh (1991). The fourth of these conferences, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, was held in Berlin from 31 July to 3 August 1995, with a record attendance of some 80 historians and philosophers of science, physicists, mathematicians, and as tronomers. Based on presentations at the Berlin conference, this volume provides an overview of the present state of research in this field, documenting not only the increasing scope of recent investigations in the history of relativity and gravitation but also the emergence of several key issues that will probably remain at the focus of debate in the near future. RELATIVITY IN THE MAKING The papers of this section deal with the origins and genesis of relativity theory. |
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Contents | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
The Search for Gravitational Absorption | 3 |
a | 5 |
a | 6 |
10 | 12 |
Figure 11 Newcombs curves for the difference between observed and | 24 |
noted by Seeliger Finally Selety expended considerable effort to | 297 |
also was overly hasty seeing in the problem a | 303 |
312 | 306 |
302 | 312 |
He had noted earlier p 114 that | 316 |
The Cosmological Woes of Newtonian Gravitation Theory | 318 |
He had noted earlier p 114 that | 328 |
The Cosmological Woes of Newtonian Gravitation Theory | 330 |
Pendulum clocks were used to measure short time periods | 25 |
EARTH | 30 |
EARTH | 32 |
MOON OCCULTNS | 37 |
Scott Walter | 45 |
Having disposed in this way of his precursors Minkowski | 61 |
reference would in general depend on the frames velocity with | 63 |
number of contributors for each of the three groups was | 69 |
to chairs in theoretical physics After a decade of | 78 |
Jürgen Renn and Tilman Sauer | 87 |
Coordinate Restriction | 104 |
should vanish33 | 107 |
and the same man could entertain such contrary options raises | 121 |
Michel Janssen | 127 |
244 | 149 |
as he wrote to Lorentz he still had an | 153 |
Peter Havas | 161 |
Daniel Kennefick | 207 |
Weisskopf 11 February 196132 and was | 223 |
234 Daniel Kennefick | 234 |
John Earman | 235 |
still possess a trapped surface Penroses 1965 | 259 |
44 | 263 |
Part III | 267 |
272 | 268 |
John D Norton | 271 |
B | 273 |
density p To approach the limit he took | 276 |
2 | 288 |
S | 288 |
also was overly hasty seeing in the problem a | 293 |
point is that one wants to deal with a system | 337 |
his ultimate aims was to bridge cosmology and quantum theory | 338 |
Milne Bondi | 343 |
Helge Kragh | 346 |
In this passage it is clear that Bondis understanding of | 347 |
Weyls Reflections on De Sitters Universe | 348 |
334 | 348 |
Milne Bondi and the Second Way to | 348 |
346 | 348 |
Weyls Reflections on De Sitters Universe 337 | 348 |
338 | 348 |
his ultimate aims was to bridge cosmology and quantum theory | 348 |
Helge Kragh | 348 |
Helge Kragh | 348 |
Milne Bondi | 374 |
Figure 2 Generators of the asymptotic cone with the family | 377 |
Figure 2 Generators of the asymptotic cone with the family | 383 |
Genesis and Evolution of Weyls Reflections | 384 |
rarely discussed | 390 |
306 | 396 |
Larmor versus General Relativity | 398 |
Question B is another matter Relativity finds | 402 |
Like many others in Britain and elsewhere Larmor | 421 |
Robert Rynasiewicz | 431 |
A Physical reality comprises no more than what is in | 445 |
As far as I know Kretschmann never replied | 459 |
Don Howard | 463 |
496 | 493 |
Contributors | 501 |
Contributors | 502 |
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