Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lehner, Christoph (Editor), Renn, Jürgen (Editor), Schemmel, Matthias (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Birkhäuser Boston, 2012.
• Series: Einstein Studies ; 12
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Mathematical physics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Mathematical Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century.  The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein’s pathbreaking achievements that sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time, radiation, and matter, and resulted in the the...