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Title: Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation

Subtitle: A selection of material from the essays submitted in the competition for the Eugene Higgins prize of $5,000

Author: J. Malcolm Bird

Other: Albert Einstein

Release Date: October 4, 2020 [EBook #63372]

Language: English

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I.—The Einstein $5,000 Prize

• The Donor and the Prize
• The Judges
• Three Thousand Words
• The Competing Essays
• Looking for the Winne
• The Winner of the Prize

II.—The World—And Us

• Getting away from the Greek Ideas
• Relativism and Reality
• Laws of Nature
• Concept and Realities
• The Concept of Space and Time
• The Reference frame for Space
• Time and The Coordinate System
• The Choice of a Coordinate Frame

III.—The Relativity of Uniform Motion

• Who Is Moving?
• Mechanical Relativity
• The Search for the Absolute
• The Ether and Absolute Motion
• The Earth and the Ether
• A Journey Upstream and Back
• The Michelson-Morley Experiment
• The Verdict
• The “Contraction” Hypothesis
• Taking the Bull by the Horns
• Questions of Common Sense
• Shifting the Mental Gears

IV.—The Special Theory of Relativity

• Light and the Ether
• The Measurement of Time and Space
• The Problem of Communication
• An Einsteinian Experiment
• Who Is Right?
• The Relativity of Time and Space
• Relativity and Reality
• Time and Space in a Single Package
• Some Further Consequences
• Assumption and Consequence
• Relativity and the Layman
• Physics vs. Metaphysics

V.—That Parallel Postulate

• Terms We Cannot Define
• Laying the Foundation
• The Rôle of Geometry
• What May We Take for Granted?
• And What Is It All About?
• Euclid’s Geometry
• Axioms Made to Order
• Locating the Discrepancy
• What the Postulate Really Does
• The Geometry of Surfaces
• Euclidean or Non-Euclidean

VI.—The Space-Time Continuum

• The Four-Dimensional World of Events
• A Continuum of Points
• The Continuum in General
• Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Continua
• Our World of Four Dimensions
• The Curvature of Space-Time
• The Question of Visualization
• What It All Leads To

VII.—Relativity

• The Mechanical Principle of Relativity
• The Special Principle of Relativity
• The Four Dimensional Continuum
• Gravitation and Acceleration
• The General Principle of Relativity

VIII.—The New Concepts of Time and Space

• A World of Points
• The Four-Dimensional World of Events
• Successive Steps Toward Generality
• Gravitation and Acceleration
• Einstein’s Time-Space World
• The Layman’s Last Doubt

IX.—The Principle of Relativity

• The Behavior of Light
• Space and Time
• The World of Reality
• Accelerated Motion

X.—Space, Time and Gravitation

• The External World and its Geometry
• Gravitation and its Place in the Universe
• Gravitation and Space-Time

XI.—The Principle of General Relativity

• Gravitation and Acceleration
• Paths Through the World of Four Dimensions
• The Universe of Space-Time

XII.—Force Vs. Geometry

• The Relativity of Uniform Motion
• Universal Relativity
• The Geometry of Gravitation

XIII.—An Introduction to Relativity

• The Electromagnetic Theory of Light
• The Michelson-Morley Experiment
• The Lorentz Transformation
• The First Theory of Relativity
• The Inclusion of Gravitation

XIV.—New Concepts for Old

• The World-Frame
• The World-Fabric
• Einstein’s Results

XV.—The New World

• The World Geometry
• The Genesis of the Theory
• The Time Diagram

XVI.—The Quest of the Absolute

• The Gravitational Hypothesis
• The Special Relativity Theory

XVII.—The Physical Side of Relativity

XVIII.—The Practical Significance of Relativity

• The Special Theory and Its Surprising Consequences
• The Generalization
• The Tests

XIX.—Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

XX.—Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation

XXI.—The Equivalence Hypothesis

XXII.—The General Theory

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