附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; A seminal idea; the principle of relativity; Early observations of things; Toward an abstract view of nature; Einstein's ideas of special relativity; Space; Time; Space-time; The principle of relativity; from Galileo to Einstein; Violation of 'common sense' notions of distance and simultaneity; On the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction; Relative time and the twin paradox; Geometry, causality and the light cone in special relativity; Particles of matter in special relativity and E=Mc2; The continuous field concept in relativity.
摘要:A publication concerning the relevance of Einstein's theory of relativity to human relations in contemporary times.