Oct12-06, 04:09 AM
See
http://canonicalscience.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-is-history-of-relativit=
y-theory.html
for additional details and references. I am preparing a new extended
version with more references and further data.
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arnow@iname.com on 28 Aug 2005 07:23:22 +0000 (UTC) wrote:
I just did a little research and found most of the questions asked here
w.r.t. Lorentz, Poincare and others are answered by Pauli in his "Theory
of Relativity." Pauli discusses the history of the subject and its
contributors. He concludes that the credit is Einstein's, because "it is
absolutely essential to insist that such a fundamental theorem as the
covariance law should be derivable from the simplest possible basic
assumptions. The credit for having succeeded in doing just this goes to
Einstein. He showed that only the following single axiom in
electrodynamics is assumed: 'The velocity of light is independent of the
motion of the source.'"
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Yes, but that was in so early like 1921. In subsequent years, Pauli
studied more carefully Poincar=E9 works. On 1955, Pauli said:
"Both Einstein and Poincar=E9, took their stand on the preparatory work o=
f
H.A. Lorentz, who had already come quite close to the result, without
however quite reaching it. In the agreement between the results of the
methods followed independently of each other by Einstein and Poincar=E9 I
discern a deeper significance of a harmony between the mathematical metho=
d
and analysis by means of conceptual experiments (Gedankenexperimente),
which rests on general features of physical experience"
His "the agreement between the results of the methods" is illustrative.
On 2005, there are further data and studies that show that Einstein
"plagiarized" the work of Poincar=E9 at a great extension. Today, Pauli
could not talk of independence, since the postulate of constancy of c was
also established by Poincar=E9 and even extended to gravitation when
Einstein was still "philosophizing" about EM.
The timeline of the history of priority looks like
Einstein =3D=3D=3D> Einstein, Lorentz, and Poincar=E9 =3D=3D=3D> Poincar=E9=
and Lorentz
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Juan R. Gonz=E1lez-=C1lvarez
Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)
http://canonicalscience.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-is-history-of-relativit=
y-theory.html
for additional details and references. I am preparing a new extended
version with more references and further data.
****************************
arnow@iname.com on 28 Aug 2005 07:23:22 +0000 (UTC) wrote:
I just did a little research and found most of the questions asked here
w.r.t. Lorentz, Poincare and others are answered by Pauli in his "Theory
of Relativity." Pauli discusses the history of the subject and its
contributors. He concludes that the credit is Einstein's, because "it is
absolutely essential to insist that such a fundamental theorem as the
covariance law should be derivable from the simplest possible basic
assumptions. The credit for having succeeded in doing just this goes to
Einstein. He showed that only the following single axiom in
electrodynamics is assumed: 'The velocity of light is independent of the
motion of the source.'"
****************************
Yes, but that was in so early like 1921. In subsequent years, Pauli
studied more carefully Poincar=E9 works. On 1955, Pauli said:
"Both Einstein and Poincar=E9, took their stand on the preparatory work o=
f
H.A. Lorentz, who had already come quite close to the result, without
however quite reaching it. In the agreement between the results of the
methods followed independently of each other by Einstein and Poincar=E9 I
discern a deeper significance of a harmony between the mathematical metho=
d
and analysis by means of conceptual experiments (Gedankenexperimente),
which rests on general features of physical experience"
His "the agreement between the results of the methods" is illustrative.
On 2005, there are further data and studies that show that Einstein
"plagiarized" the work of Poincar=E9 at a great extension. Today, Pauli
could not talk of independence, since the postulate of constancy of c was
also established by Poincar=E9 and even extended to gravitation when
Einstein was still "philosophizing" about EM.
The timeline of the history of priority looks like
Einstein =3D=3D=3D> Einstein, Lorentz, and Poincar=E9 =3D=3D=3D> Poincar=E9=
and Lorentz
-------
Juan R. Gonz=E1lez-=C1lvarez
Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)