Relativity

2010 Reprint of 1920 First English Edition. First English translation of Einstein's theory of relativity. In this work Einstein intended as far as possible to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who from a general and scientific philosophical point of view are interested in the theory but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The theory of relativity enriched physics and astronomy during the 20th century. When first published relativity superseded a 200-year-old theory of mechanics elucidated by Isaac Newton. It changed perceptions. For example it overturned the concept of motion from Newton's day into all motion is relative. Time was no longer uniform and absolute as related to everyday experience. Furthermore no longer could physics be understood as space by itself and time by itself. Instead an added dimension had to be taken into account with curved space-time. Time now depended on velocity and contraction became a fundamental consequence at appropriate speeds.