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'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 119 to take account of the motion of the earth relative to the aether, if we recognized the experimental re ...

120 RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY pressibility, and the extent to which the earth dragged the aether along. This explains large ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 121 medium might perhaps be dispensed with. Thus Paul Drude wrote in 1900: 'The conception of an ether abso ...

122 RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY borrowed from Voigt and the proof that it does not alter the form of the equations for the fr ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 123 molecular forces being affected by the motion. The author clearly has in mind a dynamic contraction mec ...

Today we call Eq. 6.8 the FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction up to second order in v/c. In order to interpret this result, Lorentz a ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 125 Like Voigt before him, Lorentz regarded the transformations (Eqs. 6.9 and 6.10) only as a convenient ma ...

126 RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY sequence of Lorentz transformations* is a product of the nineteenth century. Lorentz referred ...

SUBTLE IS THE LORD 127 believe they have this intuition are the dupes of an illusion' (the italics are Poin- care's). He further ...

128 RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY the absolute velocity, and if it is not the velocity relative to the aether, it can always be ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 129 longer one. The content of his articles is partly kinematic, partly dynamic. Here I shall discuss only ...

He did, of course, not know that a few weeks earlier someone else had inde- pendently noted the group properties of Lorentz tran ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 131 In the opening lines of the essay, he asks the reader's forbearance: 'Since I com- pletely lacked the m ...

132 RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY The skepticism of his teachers was too great, the spirit of enterprise too small. Albert had ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 133 Einstein's first important creative act dates from his high school days, when he independently discover ...

134 RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY one, La Science et I'Hypothese, for the following comment: '[This] book pro- foundly impresse ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 135 F6. M. Fluckiger, Albert Einstein in Bern, pp. 71-6. Paul Haupt Verlag, Bern, 1974. HI. J. N. Howard, h ...

136 RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY M10. , Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci. 11, 306 (1925); Science 61, 617 (1925). Mil. , Science 63, 433 (19 ...

'SUBTLE is THE LORD' 137 Tl. F. T. Trouton and H. R. Noble, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A202, 165 (1903). VI. O. Veblen, letter to A. ...

7 The New Kinematics 7a. June 1905: Special Relativity Defined, Lorentz Transformations Derived Relativity's Aesthetic Origins. ...