(Summary written by anonymous )įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit . The ideas of relativity were widely appliedand misappliedsoon after their advent. In the words of Einstein: 'The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.' The book is challenging at times but, when approached patiently, proves itself one of the most lucid explanations of Relativity to be found anywhere. The space-time theory and the kinematics of the special theory of relativity were modelled on the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of the electromagnetic field. In this book he brings a simplified form of his profound understanding of the subject to the layperson. Einstein's theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive results, including the dissolution of absolute time. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. This is an introduction to Einstein's space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Librivox recording of Relativity by Albert Einstein (translated by Robert W.

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