Einstein to the Rescue.
In 1905 a young Swiss patent clerk named Albert Einstein resolved the crisis that flowed from the Michelson-Morley result. When Einstein discarded the ether concept and asserted that the principle of relativity holds for all of physics, mechanics as well as electromagnetism, he was making a simple c...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses,
2000.
Kanopy Streaming, 2018. |
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| Summary: | In 1905 a young Swiss patent clerk named Albert Einstein resolved the crisis that flowed from the Michelson-Morley result. When Einstein discarded the ether concept and asserted that the principle of relativity holds for all of physics, mechanics as well as electromagnetism, he was making a simple claim with almost unimaginably profound implications. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time: | 00:30:29 |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |