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Re: (meteorobs) Gravity
Hi Robert,
I'm relatively new to this list (pun intended ;-) ), but I had several
url's
book marked concerning the historical development of gravitational
theory
which I had emailed to Philipp in response to his plea. I list them
here just
in case you or another list member may be interested - I've found the
info.
pretty thorough and complete.
Try this url:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.acdot uk/~history/HistTopics/General_relativity.html
It explains the history and development of gravitational
theory from Aristotle to Copernicus to Kepler all the way to Einstein and
General Relativity. Very thorough and informative (in my opinion)!
Also, check out the "Albert Einstein Online" web site for more
interesting related facts:
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
as well as:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.acdot uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html
I'm not a physicist, but I am a technical person and do
enjoy such topics
as well as the topic this list so aptly and enjoyably covers!
Kind regards,
Mal
At 05:24 PM 01/31/00 -0800, you wrote:
Philipp: Your problem is something I
would really like to talk on
myself, but I am a physicist and a type that is very interested in
gravity. I don't know what kind of material you have so far, but
I
would think that a review of the history of gravity mentioning
Aristotal, Galleleo, Newton and Einstein who each changed our idea
of
gravity would fill a lot of time. Electromagnetic, the strong and
weak
forces shape the atom and matter, and even stars, but it is purely
gravity that shapes the universe. This in spite of the fact that it
is
the weakest force. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity could
be
properly called the General Theory of Gravity. The "relativity"
part of
the name is really a hangover from his Special Theory of Relativity
which really did concern itself with relative motion. Also though
it
has nothing to do with gravity; when I studied the Special Theory
of
Relativity over 50 years ago it was under the name of
"Electrodynamics". I did a search on "gravity"
but I didn't see any
thing off hand that turned me on, but you might give that a try.
I
assume you have access to a search routine under
"hotmail". If you have
any specific questions I would be pleased to answer promptly.
Robert
Gardner
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