Ebook: The Special Theory of Relativity

Front Cover; The Special Theory of Relativity; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-Einsteinian notions of relativity; 3. The problem of the relativity of the laws ofelectrodynamics; 4. The Michelson-Morley experiment; 5. Efforts to save the ether hypothesis; 6. The Lorentz theory of the electron; 7. Further development of the Lorentz theory; 8. The problem of measuring simultaneity in the Lorentz theory; 9. The Lorentz transformation.;In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific detail in this eye-opening work, Bohm describes how the notion of relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the universe, regardless of whether we are physicists or philosophers.