Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation

James Malcolm Bird

Jan 1921 · Scientific American Publishing Company

About this ebook

Einstein's theory of relativity confounded and excited both professional and amateur scientists with its explanation of the intricacies of how the world and the universe truly work, rather than how people wished or believed they worked. His view of relativity dismantled Newton's theory of space and time as absolutes, adding the concept of curved space-time, which deals with the velocity of motion. Einstein explains his theory of physics in a way that was designed not only for scientists with a knowledge of the complicated math involved but for the general reader as well.

Ratings and reviews

The book is a very good discussion on Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It is essentially a compilation of essays on the theory by appropriately qualified people from different regions. Limited by rules restricting each easy to a certain amount of words (3000), the essayists make a good job of attempting to explain the theory in as simple a language as possible. However, the introduction to the essays by the editor itself is long drawn-out and one wants to get to the essays.

Equations are completely falsified, and seem made up. Total fabrication of evidence to support his "theories", more like just throwing random numbers into his ongoing into real equations to make his own lies seem like truths. He's a fake, and a liar. Gravity just can't be proven to exist, its all a lie, density and electromagnetism rule the universe..

I do find errors the thinking process of the writer, and the editor. The book is enlightening for the novice of this subject, as outdated as it is. The dismissal of ether is now inaccurate because of the recent discovery of the higgs field( ether). And both author and editor get confused about dimensions past the first three, which is entirely forgivable, not, however, directly after defining the concept. This error may lead some in the wrong direction of conceptualizing the subject. Use your own logic.

About the author

Born in Germany, Albert Einstein devised his general theory of relativity while he worked at the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland. It has since become the bedrock of modern physics. Einstein was educated as a physicist and taught at several universities in Europe before renouncing his German citizenship and immigrating to the United States after the rise of Nazism. He taught at Princeton until 1945 and died a decade later. His theories continue to influence generations of physicists.