The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... relativity'.90 This presupposes a great deal about the correspondence rules chosen for the two theories . The formal comparison is certainly valuable . Later we shall refer to an attempt by Weyl to reduce a theory by G. Birkhoff to ...
... relativity'.90 This presupposes a great deal about the correspondence rules chosen for the two theories . The formal comparison is certainly valuable . Later we shall refer to an attempt by Weyl to reduce a theory by G. Birkhoff to ...
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... theory will not come along which is in some sense less com- plex : simplicity is above all , a relative matter . The ... Relativity , and the reasons for its neglect long before it was thought to have been refuted by observations . No doubt ...
... theory will not come along which is in some sense less com- plex : simplicity is above all , a relative matter . The ... Relativity , and the reasons for its neglect long before it was thought to have been refuted by observations . No doubt ...
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... Theories up to that time . A recent survey of relativity is ( 35 ) H. Bondi , ' Relativity ' , Rep . Prog . Phys . , xxii ( 1959 ) 97 . Valuable texts dealing with the General Theory of Relativity are reference ( 27 ) and ( 36 ) H. Weyl ...
... Theories up to that time . A recent survey of relativity is ( 35 ) H. Bondi , ' Relativity ' , Rep . Prog . Phys . , xxii ( 1959 ) 97 . Valuable texts dealing with the General Theory of Relativity are reference ( 27 ) and ( 36 ) H. Weyl ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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