Synopsis
""The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science"" is a book written by Alfred North Whitehead and first published in 1922. The book explores the theory of relativity, a cornerstone of modern physics, and its applications to various branches of physical science. Whitehead provides a detailed explanation of the principle of relativity, discussing its origins, development, and implications for our understanding of space, time, and motion. He also explores the mathematical and experimental aspects of relativity, including the Lorentz transformations, the Michelson-Morley experiment, and the concept of spacetime. Throughout the book, Whitehead emphasizes the importance of relativity in shaping our understanding of the physical world, and its relevance to contemporary scientific research. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of science, as well as for students and researchers in physics and related fields.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Présentation de l'éditeur
It takes its rise from that awakening from dogmatic slumber to use Kant sphrase which we owe toE instein and Minkowski. But it is not an attempt to expound either Einstein searlier or his later theory. The metrical formulae finally arrived at are those of the earlier theory, but the meanings ascribed to the algebraic symbols are entirely different. As the result of a consideration of the character of our knowledge in general, and of our knowledge of nature in particular, undertaken in Part I of this book and in my two previous works on this subject, I deduce that our experience requires and exhibits a basis of uniformity, and that in the case of nature this basis exhibits itself as the uniformity of spatio-temporal relations. This conclusion entirely cuts away the casual heterogeneity of these relations which is the essential of Einstein slater theory. It is this uniformity which is essential to my outlook, and not theE uclidean geometry which I adopt as lending itself to the simplest exposition of the facts of nature. I should be very willing to believe that each permanent space is either uniformly elliptic or uniformly hyperbolic, if any observations are more simply explained by such a hypothesis. It is inherent in my theory to maintain the old division between physics and geometry. Physics is the The Principles of Natwral Knowledge, and The Concept ofN atwre, both Cambridge Univ. Press.
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