THERE is a special appropriateness, as Prof. Sampson points out, in choosing a gravitational subject for the Halley Lecture, in view of the important part that Halley played in securing the ...

A POPULAR exposition of Einstein's theory by a competent mathematician in three short lectures. They are described as “for chemists,” but have no special application to chemistry. The Theory of ...

Do you know the basics of general relativity? Do you want to know something of what more there is? Do you wonder how the theory of relativity came into being? Then this book is for you! Partial ...

Foreword / Diana Kormos Buchwald -- Preface -- Part I. Preliminaries. Introduction -- Einstein's first trip to America -- Structure and contents of The meaning of relativity -- Part II. The emerging ...

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BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (J.C.B.) will be glad to answer inquiries for further information about any of the news items contained in this Bulletin. Professor Albert Einstein will lecture on the ...

A science festival's organisers claim they will host what could be the world's shortest physics lectures, which will be delivered in a shed. Two talks lasting two minutes each for an audience of one ...