THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from The Theory of RelativityThose who look on physics from the outside not infrequently have the feeling that it has forgotten some of its philosophical foundations. Even among its own workers this condition of the science has not entirely escaped notice.The physicist, who, above all other men, has to deal with space and time, has fallen into certain conventions concerning them Of which he is often not aware. It may be true that these conventions are just the ones which he should make. It is certain, however, that they should be made only by one who is fully conscious of their nature as conventions and does not look upon them as fixed realities beyond the power of the investigator to modify.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,