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The General Theory of Relativity and Newton's Law of Gravitation - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIT is generally believed that the general theory of relativity is a theory of gravitation which treats only the case for which the Newtonian ...
A Simple Calculation of the Perihelion of Mercury from the Principle of Equivalence - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIT is known that first-order phenomena described in the general theory of relativity can be deduced from the principle of equivalence. The present note serves as an illustration.
A Generalization of Special Relativity Theory - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIN an attempt to treat gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena simultaneously within the framework of the special theory of relativity</ ...
The Nature of Time - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIN a recent article, entitled “The Relativity of Time”, Prof. Herbert Dingle1 discussed what constitutes a clock, and he used the discussion to support a thesis which he stated at the outset ...
Optical Experiments to verify the Second Postulate of the Special Theory of Relativity - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoKANTOR'S experiment1, which appeared to contradict the second postulate of special relativity, gave rise to a series of other experiments2–6. In all cases these experiments were made with rotating ...
Our Astronomical Column - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoTHE RELATIVITY THEORY AND THE MOTION OF MERCURY'S PERIHELION.—The circumstance that especially attracted the attention of mathematicians to Einstein's new theory ...
The Relative Masses of the Proton, Electron, and Helium Nucleus - Nature
Nature· 15 hours agoTHEORETICAL considerations suggest that the square root of mass may be more interesting and important than mass itself in the case of the ultimate particles of matter. For in the modern theory ...
The Deflection of Light in a Gravitational Field - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoFROM an experimental point of view, Einstein's general theory of relativity is at present in an ambiguous position. It is well known ...
Einstein's Theories - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoTHE Revue Philosophique (Alcan, Paris), edited by Prof. Lévy-Bruhl, has just issued (July-August) a special number devoted to the consideration of Einstein's theories of relativity. It consists ...
A New Pseudo-tensor with Vanishing Divergence - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoMUCH embarrassment has been caused in the general theory of relativity by the fact that the conservation equation for the energy tensor ...
