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" Theory of relativity / "
by W. Pauli ; translated from the German by G. Field.
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BL
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891685
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Relativitätstheorie.English
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| Main Entry
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Pauli, Wolfgang,1900-1958
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Theory of relativity /\ by W. Pauli ; translated from the German by G. Field.
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New York :: Dover Publications,, 1981.
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, ©1958
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xiv, 241 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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048664152X
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: 9780486641522
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Pergamon Press, 1958.
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Translation of: Relativitätstheorie.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv) and indexes.
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| Contents
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The foundations of the special theory of relativity -- Mathematical tools -- Special theory of relativity. Further elaborations -- General theory of relativity -- Theories on the nature of charged elementary particles.
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| Abstract
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Pauli's early writings, Theory of Relativity, published when the author was a young man of 21, was originally conceived as a complete review of the whole literature on relativity. Now, given the plethora of literature since that time and the growing complexity of physics and quantum mechanics, such a review is simply no longer possible. In order to maintain a proper historical perspective of Professor Pauli's significant work, the original text is reprinted in full, in addition to the author's insightful retrospective update of the later developments connected with relativity theory and the controversial questions that it provokes. Pauli pays special attention to the thorny problem of unified field theories, its connection with the range validity of the classical field concept, and its application to the atomic features of nature. While an early skeptic of solutions along classical lines, Pauli's alternative model was subsequently supported by the newer epistemological analysis of quantum or wave mechanics. Given the many pieces of the puzzle yet to be fitted into a cohesive picture of relativity, the differences of opinion on the relation of relativity theory to quantum theory are merging into one of science's great open problems. Pauli provides additional informative views on: problems beyond the original frame of special and general relativity; the conflict between "classical physics" and the quantum mechanical approach; the importance of Einsteinian theory in the development of physics; and finally, the epistemological analysis of the finiteness of the quantum of action and the move away from naïve visualizations.
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Relativity (Physics)
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Relativity (Physics)
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530.1/1
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QC173.55.P3813 1981
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