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At the conclusion of the lecture announcement was made and enthusiastically cheered that the blackboard used by the speaker and signed by him was to be varnished and preserved as a historic memento. Einstein holds the primary concept of physics to be that of a rigid body. The idea of space was not known by the Greeks. Behind the geometry of Euclid with its displacement of triangles lay the thought of rigid bodies. With Descartes' analytical geometry science conceived the conception of a space continuum, but it was an entirely mathematical notion. Newton, dealing with force and acceleration, conferred on space a definite physical reality. A further change in the content of the space concept was introduced by Faraday and Maxwell when they discussed the electromagnetic field. This idea joined the former trio of realities, bodies, space and time, and seemed to requirethe setting up of the ether to account for its actions. H.A. Lorentz made great use of the ether though he robbed it of its mechanical properties. Next came the special theory of relativity. "Classical physics used three co6rdinates in space and one in time. It was now found necessary to unite these into the four co6rdinat

Who reads Einstein on Space?

Author

G.F.S.

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)

Published

1930

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)