- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Einstein’s First Trip to America -
3 Structure and Contents of the Meaning of Relativity -
1 Physics and Geometry -
2 The Principles of General Relativity -
3 The First Solutions and the Challenge of Their Interpretation -
4 Einstein and the Astronomers -
5 The Genesis of Relativistic Cosmology -
6 The Controversy over Gravitational Waves -
7 Philosophical Debates on General Relativity -
8 The Quest for a Unified Field Theory -
9 Early Monographs on Relativity -
10 Beyond the Formative Years - Space and Time in Pre-relativity Physics
- The Theory of Special Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)
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Appendix For the Second Edition -
Appendix II Generalization of Gravitation Theory -
Appendix II Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field -
1 Introductory Remarks -
2 Einstein’s Lectures - Biographical Notes
- Index
For the Second Edition
For the Second Edition
On The "Cosmologic Problem"
- Chapter:
- (p.269) Appendix For the Second Edition
- Source:
- The Formative Years of Relativity
- Author(s):
Hanoch Gutfreund
Jürgen Renn
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter considers the so-called “cosmologic problem” in greater detail. According to Einstein, the problem can be roughly formulated as: on account of our observations on fixed stars we are sufficiently convinced that the system of fixed stars does not in the main resemble an island which floats in infinite empty space, and that there does not exist anything like a center of gravity of the total amount of existing matter. Rather, we feel urged toward the conviction that there exists an average density of matter in space which differs from zero. Hence, the chapter considers whether or not this hypothesis, which is suggested by experience, can be reconciled with the general theory of relativity.
Keywords: cosmologic problem, fixed stars, gravity, general theory of relativity, space, matter
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Einstein’s First Trip to America -
3 Structure and Contents of the Meaning of Relativity -
1 Physics and Geometry -
2 The Principles of General Relativity -
3 The First Solutions and the Challenge of Their Interpretation -
4 Einstein and the Astronomers -
5 The Genesis of Relativistic Cosmology -
6 The Controversy over Gravitational Waves -
7 Philosophical Debates on General Relativity -
8 The Quest for a Unified Field Theory -
9 Early Monographs on Relativity -
10 Beyond the Formative Years - Space and Time in Pre-relativity Physics
- The Theory of Special Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)
-
Appendix For the Second Edition -
Appendix II Generalization of Gravitation Theory -
Appendix II Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field -
1 Introductory Remarks -
2 Einstein’s Lectures - Biographical Notes
- Index
