Relativity (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): The Special and the General Theory
By Albert Einstein and Amit Hagar
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. His work also had a major impact on the development of atomic energy. In his later years, Einstein focused on unified field theory.
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Relativity (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - Albert Einstein
PART I
THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER I
PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS
IN your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid’s geometry, and you remember—perhaps with more respect than love—the magnificent structure, on the lofty staircase of which you were chased about for uncounted hours by conscientious teachers. By reason of your past experience, you would certainly regard every one with disdain who should pronounce even the most out-of-the-way proposition of this science to be untrue. But perhaps this feeling of proud certainty would leave you immediately if some one were to ask you: What, then, do you mean by the assertion that these propositions are true?
Let us proceed to give this question a little consideration.
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as plane,
point,
and straight line,
with which we are able to associate more or less definite ideas, and from certain simple propositions (axioms) which, in virtue of these ideas, we are inclined to accept as true.
Then, on the basis of a logical process, the justification of which we feel ourselves compelled to admit, all remaining propositions are shown to follow from those axioms, i.e. they are proven. A proposition is then correct (true
) when it has been derived in the recognised manner from the axioms. The question of the truth
of the individual geometrical propositions is thus reduced to one of the truth
of the axioms. Now it has long been known that the last question is not only unanswerable by the methods of geometry, but that it is in itself entirely without meaning. We cannot ask whether it is true that only one straight line goes through two points. We can only say that Euclidean geometry deals with things called straight lines,
to each of which is ascribed the property of being uniquely determined by two points situated on it. The concept true
does not tally with the assertions of pure geometry, because by the word true
we are eventually in the habit of designating always the correspondence with a real
object; geometry, however, is not concerned with the relation of the ideas involved in it to objects of experience, but only with the logical connection of these ideas among