The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought
Arthur Eddington
Résumé
"Every one now admits that the Ptolemaic system, which regarded the earth as the centre of all things, belongs to the dark ages. But to our dismay we have discovered that the same geocentric outlook still permeates modern physics through and through, unsuspected until recently. It has been left to Einstein to carry forward the revolution begun by Copernicus - to free our conception of nature from the terrestrial bias imported into it by the limitations of our earthbound experience. To achieve a more neutral point of view we have to imagine a visit to some other heavenly body. That is a theme which has attracted the popular novelist, and we often smile at his mistakes when sooner or later he forgets where he is supposed to be and endows his voyagers with some purely terrestrial appanage impossible on the star they are visiting. But scientific men, who have not the novelist's licence, have made the same blunder..."
Caractéristiques techniques
| NUMERIQUE | |
| Éditeur(s) | Literature And Knowledge Publishing |
| Auteur(s) | Arthur Eddington |
| Parution | 12/04/2018 |
| Nb. de pages | 96 |
| Contenu |
ePub + Mobi/Kindle |
| EAN13 |
9782366596076 |
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