Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaître Before the Big Bang Theory /

• Main Author: Lemaître, Georges (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Govaerts, Jan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Stoffel, Jean-François (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book presents the first translation into English of the treatise The Physics of Einstein completed by the young Georges Lemaître in 1922, only six years after the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity. It includes a historical introduction and a historical critical...

Table of Contents:

• Preface by the volume editors
• The Physics of Einstein by Georges Lemaître (1922): The Historical Context
• An Invitation to Further Reading
• The Physics of Einstein: Introduction
• Space and Time
• Force Fields
• Field Production by Relative Motion
• Graviation
• Electric Charges
• La Physique d'Einstein - French version edited from the original manuscript
• La correspondance entre Georges Lemaître et Maurice Alliaume.