Relativity

Sir Arthur Eddington's Grand Expedition (1919)

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was quite a lucky man.

May 8, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

Einstein’s Paper on the Photoelectric Effect (1905)

About six weeks before he submitted his doctoral thesis at the University of Zürich in 1905, Einstein on March 18th submitted the paper Über einen die…

Jul 16, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

Einstein and Hilbert’s Relativity Race (1915)

The published version of a talk by mathematician David Hilbert (1862-1943), dated the 20th of November 1915 is entitled ‘Die Grundlagen der Physik’ (“On…

Jul 3, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

Gödel's Solution to Einstein's Field Equations (1949)

Following Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)’s publications on the first- and second incompleteness theorems (1931) and later work on Cantor’s continuum hypothesis…

May 4, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

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