Concept
General relativity
Overview
standard and classical physics theory of gravity and space
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.
This subject of the formation of the three laws of motion and of the law of gravitation deserves critical attention. The whole development of thought occupied exactly two generations. It commenced with Galileo and ended with Newton’s _Principia_; and Newton was born in the year that Galileo died.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
The author is tied to General relativity in the knowledge graph.
From these discussions we see, that the working out of the general relativity theory must, at the same time, lead to a theory of gravitation; for we can “create” a gravitational field by a simple variation of the co-ordinate system. Also we see immediately that the principle of the constancy of light-velocity must be modified, for we recognise easily that the path of a ray of light with reference to K′ must be, in…
Albert Einstein, The Principle of Relativity
Opens on General relativity; names General relativity.
The axiom can be explained as follows: Let {alpha} and {beta} be the names of two time-systems. The directions of motion in the space of {alpha} due to rest in a point of {beta} is called the '{beta}-direction in {alpha}' and the direction of motion in the space of {beta} due to rest in a point of {alpha} is called the '{alpha}-direction in {beta}.' Consider a motion in the space of {alpha} consisting of a certain…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
States what General relativity is; the author is tied to General relativity in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed General relativity
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Kurt Gödel
- Moritz Schlick
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Roger Penrose
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Luce Irigaray
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Émile Meyerson
Related ideas
- Force
- Elementary particle
- Francis Bacon
- Isaac Newton
- Classical physics
- Loop quantum gravity
- Kurt Gödel
- Urbain Le Verrier
- Cosmology
- Geometry
- Mathematical beauty
- Mass
- Stephen Hawking
- Classical mechanics
- Theoretical physics
- Dark energy
- Matter
- Mercury (planet)
- Momentum
- Manifold
- Nobel Prize
- Arthur Eddington
- Planet
- Particle physics
Place in the tradition
Part of Confirmation holism.