The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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Síða 349
... ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE He that is giddy thinks the world goes round The Taming of the Shrew , V , ii , 20 RIGHTLY or wrongly a stage has been reached in cosmology where ' absolute ' , as used of space and time , is a polemical term . The ...
... ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE He that is giddy thinks the world goes round The Taming of the Shrew , V , ii , 20 RIGHTLY or wrongly a stage has been reached in cosmology where ' absolute ' , as used of space and time , is a polemical term . The ...
Síða 350
... absolute space is a certain set of inertial frames none of which can be dis- tinguished from the rest . On this view there would be , therefore , no absolute uniform velocities , but only absolute accelerations ( and rotations ) ...
... absolute space is a certain set of inertial frames none of which can be dis- tinguished from the rest . On this view there would be , therefore , no absolute uniform velocities , but only absolute accelerations ( and rotations ) ...
Síða 352
... absolute ( accelerated ) motions with respect to absolute space , the existence of which was thereby supposed demonstrated more or less directly . When Berkeley and Mach pointed out that the accelera- tion might just as well be ...
... absolute ( accelerated ) motions with respect to absolute space , the existence of which was thereby supposed demonstrated more or less directly . When Berkeley and Mach pointed out that the accelera- tion might just as well be ...
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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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