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Albert Einstein presented the theories of special relativity and general relativity in publications that either contained no formal references to previous literature, or referred only to a small number of his predecessors for fundamental results on which he based his theories, most notably to the work of Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz for special relativity, and to the work of David ...
Hilbert claimed priority for the introduction of the Riemann scalar into the action principle and the derivation of the field equations from it," [B 6] (Sauer mentions a letter and a draft letter where Hilbert defends his priority for the action functional) "and Einstein admitted publicly that Hilbert (and Lorentz) had succeeded in giving the ...
Special relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, Henri Poincaré, Hendrik Lorentz; General relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, David Hilbert; Chandrasekhar limit: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Edmund Clifton Stoner, Wilhelm Anderson [8] Eightfold Way: Murray Gell-Mann, Yuval Ne'eman [9] [10]
It was also claimed that special relativity cannot handle acceleration, which would lead to contradictions in some situations. However, this assessment is not correct, since acceleration actually can be described in the framework of special relativity (see Acceleration (special relativity), Proper reference frame (flat spacetime), Hyperbolic motion, Rindler coordinates, Born coordinates).
The history of special relativity consists of many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. It culminated in the theory of special relativity proposed by Albert Einstein and subsequent work of Max Planck, Hermann Minkowski and others.
Eddington followed up with a presentation on similar topic, titled "Relativistic Degeneracy", in which he directly criticized Chandrasekhar's theory, saying it lacked physical meaning. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Eddington's criticism focused on the upper limit for a white dwarf's mass, and he disapproved of Chandrasekhar's use of relativity along with non ...
2 The field equations of general relativity. 8 comments. 3 Poincaré's Method of Clock Synchronization. ... 5 Special Relativity by 1905. 1 comment. 6 ...
1 Special relativity. 2 General relativity. 3 Cosmology. ... This is a list of mathematical topics in relativity, by Wikipedia page. Special relativity