Renn / Schemmel / Smeenk The Genesis of General Relativity

Sources and Interpretations
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4000-9
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 619 Seiten

This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity. Einstein's 1912 Zurich notebook is published for the first time in facsimile and transcript and commented on by today's major historians of science. Additional sources from Einstein and others, who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development, are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renn, Jürgen

Schemmel, Matthias

Smeenk, Christopher

Martin, Christopher

Divarci, Lindy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;6
2;Volume 1;8
2.1;PREFACE;8
2.2;INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES 1 AND 2: THE ZURICH NOTEBOOK AND THE GENESIS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY;14
2.2.1;REFERENCES;24
2.3;CLASSICAL PHYSICS IN DISARRAY;28
2.3.1;1. INTRODUCTION;28
2.3.2;2. GRAVITATION AMONG THE BORDERLINE PROBLEMS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS;37
2.3.3;3. THE ROOTS OF EINSTEIN’S HEURISTICS IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CLASSICAL AND SPECIAL RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS;66
2.3.4;REFERENCES;83
2.4;THE FIRST TWO ACTS;88
2.4.1;REFERENCES;116
2.5;PATHWAYS O UT OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS;123
2.5.1;1. INTRODUCTION;123
2.5.2;2. THE MENTAL MODEL OF FIELD THEORY;135
2.5.3;3. THE ELEMENTS OF EINSTEIN’S HEURISTICS;149
2.5.4;4. DEFAULT SETTINGS AND OPEN SLOTS IN THE LORENTZ MODEL FOR A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD EQUATION IN 1912;160
2.5.5;5. TESTING THE CANDIDATES: EINSTEIN’S CHECK LIST FOR GRAVITATION TENSORS;183
2.5.6;6. CHANGING HORSES: EINSTEIN’S CHOICE OF GRAVITATION TENSORS FROM 1912–1913;201
2.5.7;7. PROGRESS IN A LOOP: EINSTEIN’S GENERAL RELATIVITY AS A TRIUMPH OF THE “ENTWURF” THEORY IN THE PERIOD FROM 1913 TO 1915;232
2.5.8;8. THE TRANSITION FROM CLASSICAL PHYSICS TO GENERAL RELATIVITY AS A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION;298
2.5.9;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;313
2.5.10;REFERENCES;313
2.6;EINSTEIN’S ZURICH NOTEBOOK;319
3;Volume 2;494
3.1;A COMMENTARY ON THE NOTES ON GRAVITY IN THE ZURICH NOTEBOOK;494
3.2;WHAT WAS EINSTEIN’S “FATEFUL PREJUDICE”?;720
3.3;WHAT DID EINSTEIN KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT? A BESSO MEMO DATED AUGUST 1913;789
3.4;UNTYING THE KNOT: HOW EINSTEIN FOUND HIS WAY BACK TO FIELD EQUATIONS DISCARDED IN THE ZURICH NOTEBOOK;842
4;Index;929