GENERAL-RELATIVITY BEFORE SPECIAL RELATIVITY - AN UNCONVENTIONAL OVERVIEW OF RELATIVITY THEORY

Authors
RINDLER W
Citation
W. Rindler, GENERAL-RELATIVITY BEFORE SPECIAL RELATIVITY - AN UNCONVENTIONAL OVERVIEW OF RELATIVITY THEORY, American journal of physics, 62(10), 1994, pp. 887-893
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
American journal of physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029505
Volume
62
Issue
10
Year of publication
1994
Pages
887 - 893
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9505(1994)62:10<887:GBSR-A>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
It is suggested how Bernhard Riemann might have discovered General Rel ativity soon after 1854 and how today's undergraduate students can be given a glimpse of this before, or independently of, their study of Sp ecial Relativity. At the same time, the whole field of relativity theo ry is briefly surveyed from the space-time point of view.