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Lecture 2: Conclusions From The Relativity Theory

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Year1923
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LECTURE II CONCLUSIONS FROM THE RELATIVITY THEORY A. INTRODUCTION The theory of relativity of Einstein and his collaborators has profoundly revolutionized our conceptions of nature. Time and space have ceased to be entities and have become mere forms of conception. The length of a body and the time on it and the mass have ceased to be fixed properties and have become dependent on the conditions of obser- vation. The law of conservation of matter thus had to be abandoned and mass became a manifestation of energy. The law of gravitation has been recast, and the force of gravitation has become an effect of inertial motion, like centrifugal force. The ether has been abandoned, and the field of force of Faraday and Maxwell has become the fundamental conception of physics. The laws of mechanics ^
... The law of conservation of matter thus had to be abandoned and mass became a manifestation of energy. The law of gravitation has been recast, and the force of gravitation has become an effect of inertial motion, like centrifugal force. The ether has been abandoned, and the field of force of Faraday and Maxwell has become the fundamental conception of physics. The laws of mechanics ^ have been changed, and time and space have been bound' together in the four-dimensional world space, the dimen- sions of which are neither space nor time, but a symmetri ...
... the old and of the new conceptions are so small that they usually cannot be observed even by the most accurate scientific investigation, and in the few instances where the differences have been measured, as in the disturbances of Mercury's orbit, the bending of the beam of light in the gravitational field, etc., they are close to the limits of observation. 12 CONCLUSIONS FROM RELATIVITY THEORY 13 We have seen that the length of a body and the time on it change with the relative velocity of the observer. The highest velocities which we can prod ...
... ver, shows that two equal beams of light when superimposed, may give a beam of double intensity, or may extinguish each other and give darkness, or may give anything between these two 14 RELATIVITY AND SPACE extremes. This can be explained only by assuming light to be a wave, like an alternating current. Depending on their phase relation, the combination of two waves (as two beams of light or two alternating currents) may be anything between their sum and their difference. Thus the two alternating currents consumed by two incandescent lamps add ...
... n the conditions of obser- vation. The law of conservation of matter thus had to be abandoned and mass became a manifestation of energy. The law of gravitation has been recast, and the force of gravitation has become an effect of inertial motion, like centrifugal force. The ether has been abandoned, and the field of force of Faraday and Maxwell has become the fundamental conception of physics. The laws of mechanics ^ have been changed, and time and space have been bound' together in the four-dimensional world space, the dimen- sions of which are nei ...
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