아인슈타인과 우주의 책.The Book of Einstein and the Universe, by Charles Nordmann
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Title: Einstein and the Universe
A popular exposition of the famous theory
Author: Charles Nordmann
Translator: Joseph McCabe
Contributor: Viscount Haldane
EINSTEIN AND THE UNIVERSE
A Popular Exposition of the Famous Theory
By CHARLES NORDMANN
Astronomer to the Paris Observatory.
Translated by JOSEPH McCABE
With a Preface by the Rt. Hon.
THE VISCOUNT HALDANE, O.M.
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD.
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
First published in EnglishApril 1922
Second ImpressionJune 1922

아인슈타인과 우주의 책.The Book of Einstein and the Universe, by Charles Nordmann
CONTENTS
PREFACE BY THE RT. HON. VISCOUNT HALDANE, O.M. pp. ？5-8

INTRODUCTION pp. 13-15

CHAPTER I
THE METAMORPHOSES OF
SPACE AND TIME
Removing the mathematical difficulties―The pillars
of knowledge―Absolute time and space, from
Aristotle to Newton―Relative time and space,
from Epicurus to Poincar？ and Einstein―
Classical Relativity―Antinomy of stellar
aberration and the Michelson experiment pp. 17-31

CHAPTER II
SCIENCE IN A NO-THOROUGHFARE
Scientific truth and mathematics―The precise function
of Einstein―Michelson’s experiment, the Gordian knot
of science―The hesitations of Poincar？―The strange,
but necessary, Fitzgerald-Lorentz hypothesis―The
contraction of moving bodies―Philosophical and
physical difficulties pp. 32-52

CHAPTER III
EINSTEIN’S SOLUTION
Provisional rejection of ether―Relativist
interpretation of Michelson’s experiment―New aspect
of the speed of light―Explanation of the contraction
of moving bodies―Time and the four dimensions of
space―Einstein’s “Interval” the only material
reality pp. 53-72[Pg 10]

CHAPTER IV
EINSTEIN’S MECHANICS
The mechanical foundation of all the sciences―
Ascending the stream of time―The speed of
light an impassable limit―The addition of speeds
and Fizeau’s experiment―Variability of mass―
The ballistics of electrons―Gravitation and light
as atomic microcosms―Matter and energy―
The death of the sun pp. 73-100

CHAPTER V
GENERALISED RELATIVITY
Weight and inertia―Ambiguity of the Newtonian
law―Equivalence of gravitation and accelerated
movement―Jules Verne’s projectile and the principle
of inertia―Why rays of light are subject to
gravitation―How light from the stars is
weighed―An eclipse as a source of light pp. 101-123

CHAPTER VI
THE NEW CONCEPTION
OF GRAVITATION
Geometry and reality―Euclid’s geometry and
others―Contingency of Poincar？’s criterion―
The real universe is not Euclidean but Riemannian―
The avatars of the number π―The point of view of
the drunken man―Straight and geodetic lines―The
new law of universal attraction―Explanation of the
anomaly of the planet Mercury―Einstein’s theory
of gravitation pp. 124-147

CHAPTER VII
IS THE UNIVERSE INFINITE?
Kant and the number of the stars―Extinct stars and
dark nebulæ―Extent and aspect of the astronomical
universe―Different kinds of universes―Poincar？’s
calculation―Physical definition of the infinite―
The infinite and the unlimited―Stability and
curvature of cosmic space-time―Real and virtual
stars―Diameter of the Einsteinian universe―
The hypothesis of globes of ether pp. 148-159[Pg 11]
CHAPTER VIII
SCIENCE AND REALITY
The Einsteinian absolute―Revelation by science―
Discussion of the experimental bases of Relativity―
Other possible explanations―Arguments in favour
of Lorentz’s real contraction―Newtonian space
may be distinct from absolute space―The real is
a privileged form of the possible―Two attitudes
in face of the unknown pp. 160-172

CHAPTER IX
EINSTEIN OR NEWTON?
Recent discussion of Relativism at the Academy
of Sciences―Traces of the privileged space
of Newton―The principle of causality,
the basis of science―Examination of M.
Painlev？’s objections―Newtonian arguments
and Relativist replies―M. Painlev？’s formulas
of gravitation―Fecundity of Einstein’s theory―
Two conceptions of the world―Conclusion pp. 173-185