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English: This file is the (steps towards) general relativity lecture of the Wikiversity:Special relativity and steps towards general relativity course. It is in pdf format for convenient viewing as a fullscreen, structured presentation in a classroom.
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The series presently stands at four books (as of early 2023) covering the first four of six core courses devoted to: classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, special relativity and classical field theory, general relativity, cosmology, and statistical mechanics. Videos for all of these courses are available online.
Einstein considered this the finest description of the theory of relativity in any language. [3] Charles Steinmetz (1923) Four Lectures on Relativity and Space; Ludwik Silberstein (1924) The Theory of Relativity, 2nd edition, enlarged @ Internet Archive; G. D. Birkhoff (1926) Relativity and Modern Physics, Google Books snippets
The lectures were translated into English by Edwin Plimpton Adams. The lectures and the subsequent book were Einstein's last attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of his theory of relativity and is his only book that provides an accessible overview of the physics and mathematics of general relativity.
Nimtz' interpretation is based on the following theory: The expression () in the Feynman photon propagator means that a photon has the highest probability of traveling exactly at the speed of light (=), but it has nonvanishing probability to violate the laws of special relativity, as a “virtual photon”, over short time and length scales ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Special Relativity, Lecture Notes in Physics, Monographs, ... General Relativity, Springer, 2007 [4] References
Rainich's research centered on general relativity and early work toward a unified field theory. In 1924, Rainich found a set of equivalent conditions for a Lorentzian manifold to admit an interpretation as an exact non-null electrovacuum solution in general relativity; these are now known as the Rainich conditions .