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The general theory is an extension of the special theory which enables the law of gravitation to be deduced. Not in Newton’s form, it is true, but in a better form, that is, one that accounts for two important facts otherwise not explained. But it is a far more general theory that indicated above. It is a complete study of the relations between laws expressed by means of any four coordinates (of which three space and one time is a special case), and the same laws expressed in the four coordinates of a system having any motion whatever with respect to the first system. By restricting this general study in accordance with certain postulates about the nature of the universe we live in, we arrive at a number of conclusions which fit more closely with observed facts that the conclusions drawn from Newton’s theory.][221]
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| Title: | Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation: A Selection of Material from the Essays Submitted in the Competition for the Eugene Higgins Prize of $5,000 | |
| Editor: | James Malcolm Bird (1886–1964) | [Info] |
| Contributor: | A. d’Abro | |
| Contributor: | L. M. Alexander | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Joseph S. Ames | |
| Contributor: | Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade | |
| Contributor: | Lieut. W. Mark Angus | |
| Contributor: | Paul M. Batchelder | |
| Contributor: | E. T. Bell | |
| Contributor: | Lyndon Bolton | |
| Contributor: | Dr. George de Bothezat | |
| Contributor: | Charles A. Brunn | |
| Contributor: | Charles H. Burr | |
| Contributor: | Dorothy Burr | |
| Contributor: | Elwyn F. Burrill | |
| Contributor: | Professor A. E. Caswell | |
| Contributor: | Edward A. Clarke | |
| Contributor: | Harold T. Davis | |
| Contributor: | R. F. Deimel | |
| Contributor: | C. E. Dimick | |
| Contributor: | Saul Dushman | |
| Contributor: | Hugh Elliot | |
| Contributor: | Earl R. Evans | |
| Contributor: | E. P. Fairbairn, M.C., B.Sc. | |
| Contributor: | Francis Farquhar | |
| Contributor: | Montgomery Francis | |
| Contributor: | J. Elias Fries, Fellow A.I.E.E. | |
| Contributor: | H. Gartelmann | |
| Contributor: | James O. G. Gibbons | |
| Contributor: | Norman E. Gilbert | |
| Contributor: | Dean W. P. Graham | |
| Contributor: | D. B. Hall | |
| Contributor: | George Frederick Hemens, M.C., B.Sc. | |
| Contributor: | C. W. Kanolt | |
| Contributor: | Frank E. Law | |
| Contributor: | R. Bruce Lindsay | |
| Contributor: | Rev. George Thomas Manley | |
| Contributor: | George F. Marsteller | |
| Contributor: | John G. McHardy | |
| Contributor: | L. F. H. de Miffonis. B.A., C.E. | |
| Contributor: | Col. John Millis | |
| Contributor: | Dr. M. C. Mott-Smith | |
| Contributor: | Dr. Francis D. Murnaghan | |
| Contributor: | Edward A. Partridge | |
| Contributor: | Professor Andrew H. Patterson | |
| Contributor: | Professor William H. Pickering | |
| Contributor: | William Hemmenway Pratt | |
| Contributor: | Kenneth W. Reed | |
| Contributor: | James Rice | |
| Contributor: | Edward Adams Richardson | |
| Contributor: | Walter van B. Roberts | |
| Contributor: | C. E. Rose, M.E. | |
| Contributor: | T. Royds | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Henry Norris Russell | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Moritz Schlick | |
| Contributor: | Leopold Schorsch | |
| Contributor: | Prof. J. A. Schouten | |
| Contributor: | Frederick W. Shurlock | |
| Contributor: | W. de Sitter | |
| Contributor: | Prof. William Benjamin Smith | |
| Contributor: | Robert Stevenson | |
| Contributor: | Prof. W. F. G. Swann | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster | |
| Contributor: | L. L. Whyte | |
| Contributor: | Prof. R. W. Wood | |
| Language: | English | |
| Original publication date: | 1921 |