550 SUBJECT INDEX
Relativity, special theory of (cont.)
aether and, 138
aether dynamics and, 114-115
applications of, 144-146
assimilation of, 27-28
discovery of, 21, 27
E = mc^2 , 148-149
early responses to, 149-153
electromagnetic mass, 155-159, 166
FitzGerald and, 122-124
historical background leading to, 111-134
impact on modern physics, 155
Larmorand, 122-123, 126
Lorentz and, 21, 27, 120-127
Lorentz transformations, 142-144
mass-energy equivalence, 148-149
Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and,
119-120
Michelson-Morley experiment and, 114-
119
Michelson's reaction to, 113-114
Minkowski's contribution to, 151-152
Minkowski's response to, 151-152
Newtonian theory of gravitation and, 178-
182
nonconstant light velocity and, 230
Planck and, 28
Poincare and, 21, 27, 126-130
postulates of, 140-142
precursors of, 119-128
quantum theory and, 146-147, 151
simplicity and, 138-140
tensor methods for, 152
time and, 139
as transition in physics, 27-30
transition to general relativity, 154
Voigt and, 120-122
Relativity theory, see also Relativity, general
theory of; Relativity, special theory of
experimental status of in 1979, 272-273
international conferences on, 163, 269-270
GR9, 270, 288, 291-292
Mach and, 283
as new way of thinking, 163-164
Newtonian mechanics and, 164
popular exposition of, 272
as transition, 29-30
Whittaker and, 168
Religion, 17, 27, 30, 35-36, 38, 39, 41, 192,
319
Ricci calculus, 276, 337-339
Ricci tensor, 219, 221, 223, 237, 342-345
Riemann-Christoffel tensor, 218, 236-237,
276
Riemann space, 339
Riemannian geometry, 22, 23, 210, 212, 213,
277, 337
tensor calculus of, 217-219
with torsion, 345
Rigid bodies, 154
Rotation
Einstein on, 189
Mach on, 282
Newton's argument for absolute character of,
243
zero point energy of, 247
Rubens-Kurlbaum paper, 366
Rutherford law of radioactive decay, 411
Rydberg's constant, 28
Schroedinger
causality, 443
Nobel prize, 24, 515, 516
wave function of, 441, 443, 449
wave mechanics, 444
other references, 6, 20, 24, 63, 268, 278,
290, 329, 333, 336, 337, 348, 361, 362,
418, 420, 435, 438-444, 448, 456, 515,
516
Schwarzschild singularity, 289
Schwarzschild solution, Kruskal treatment of,
270
Scientific method, 13-15, 31
Self-induction, 131, 133
Semivectors, 451-452
Simplicity, 138-140, 273, 325-326, 347, 349,
466-467
special relativity and, 138-140
Simultaneity, 21, 127
concept of, 142
definition of, 180-181
Einstein's treatment of, 180-181, 183
Poincare on, 127
Singularities
gravitational collapse with, 32
problem of motion, 288-291
Schwarzschild, 289
Solid state quantum theory, 58
Solar eclipse expeditions, 268, 273, 303-304
Solvay conferences, 200, 209, 270, 399, 408,
418, 444-446
Space, 22, 201-202
absolute, 30, 284
Euclidean, 235
limits of, 309
Mach's mechanics, 284
measurement of, 219
Riemannian, 339
special theory of relativity and, 151-152
Specific heat, 58, 358, 389-399
diamond anomaly, 391-393
Einstein on, 394-399
of gases, 393-394
at low temperatures, 397-399