Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation / A selection of material from the essays submitted in the competition for the Eugene Higgins prize of USD5,000

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	PREFACE		iii
	Table of Contents		xiii
I.	THE EINSTEIN $5,000 PRIZE		1
		The Donor and the Prize	2
		The Judges	5
		Three Thousand Words	7
		The Competing Essays	9
		Looking for the Winner	12
		The Winner of the Prize	16
II.	THE WORLD—AND US		19
		Getting Away from the Greek Ideas	21
		Relativism and Reality	23
		Laws of Nature	26
		Concepts and Realities	29
		The Concepts of Space and Time	33
		The Reference Frame for Space	36
		Time and the Coordinate System	38
		The Choice of a Coordinate Frame	41
III.	THE RELATIVITY OF UNIFORM MOTION		46
		Who Is Moving?	48
		Mechanical Relativity	50
		The Search for the Absolute	52
		The Ether and Absolute Motion	55
		SPACE, TIME AND GRAVITATION	206
		The External World and its Geometry	208
		Gravitation and its Place in the Universe	211
		Gravitation and Space-Time	214
XI.	THE PRINCIPLE OF GENERAL RELATIVITY		218
		Gravitation and Acceleration	220
		Paths Through the World of Four Dimensions	223
		The Universe of Space-Time	225
XII.	FORCE VS. GEOMETRY		230
		The Relativity of Uniform Motion	233
		Universal Relativity	235
		The Geometry of Gravitation	237
XIII.	AN INTRODUCTION TO RELATIVITY		240
		The Electromagnetic Theory of Light	241
		The Michelson-Morley Experiment	243
		The Lorentz Transformation	245
		The First Theory of Relativity	246
		The Inclusion of Gravitation	248
XIV.	NEW CONCEPTS FOR OLD		251
		The World-Frame	253
		The World-Fabric	257
		Einstein’s Results	261
XV.	THE NEW WORLD		265
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