The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... reason for dissatisfaction with Newton's theory has aleady been discussed in Chapter 2. The first reason will now be considered at some length . Anyone who hoped to cast a new theory of gravitation in the form of Maxwell's ...
... reason for dissatisfaction with Newton's theory has aleady been discussed in Chapter 2. The first reason will now be considered at some length . Anyone who hoped to cast a new theory of gravitation in the form of Maxwell's ...
Síða 189
... reasons it will usually be preferred . Similarities are naturally to be expected for the simple reason that both Einstein and Birkhoff took the Newtonian theory as their prototype ; and yet , if only from the expres- sion for the ...
... reasons it will usually be preferred . Similarities are naturally to be expected for the simple reason that both Einstein and Birkhoff took the Newtonian theory as their prototype ; and yet , if only from the expres- sion for the ...
Síða 294
... reason for the multiplicity of the solutions offered by the General Theory of Relativity , according to Milne , is ... reason " . ' Popper allowed as ' good reason ' the possibility of replacing the hypothesis ' by another which is ...
... reason for the multiplicity of the solutions offered by the General Theory of Relativity , according to Milne , is ... reason " . ' Popper allowed as ' good reason ' the possibility of replacing the hypothesis ' by another which is ...
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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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