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第一次世界大战对相对论的影响:部分III,后果

The Impact Of World War I On Relativity: Part III, The Aftermath

Virginia Trimble

摘要:

当枪声在1918年11月11日(在某些时区接近上午11点)停止时,世界和科学都没有结束,但两者都不会再一样了。这项调查的第一部分(Observatory 138,46-58,2018年4月)在杰拉尔德·霍尔顿的“只有爱因斯坦,只有那里,只有那时”的标题下研究了广义相对论的发展。第二部分(天文台138,98 116,2018年6月)讨论了许多(大多数)与爱因斯坦互动的物理学家的活动,相对论,经典和其他方面,研究相对论引力,或者,有时,反对它,并留下仍然可以遵循的轨道。第三部分考虑了爱因斯坦的一些事情,他的引力理论,以及战后的相关科学,也许,正因为如此,其中一部分项目可能会很熟悉--1919年的日食探险和同年国际天文学联合会的成立,爱因斯坦1921年的诺贝尔奖(因为发现了光电效应定律)。其他人可能不那么重要,包括大量关于GR的书籍(赞成和反对),纸张配给的结束肯定发挥了作用,AE 1922年的巴黎之旅,以及血淋淋的细节,引力辐射/波和宇宙学常数的摆动和回旋。这是留给读者的练习,让他们决定哪些项目主要是科学的,哪些主要是政治的。“广义相对论是正确的引力理论吗?“和“我们有更好的战争吗?“在最后来。我将从一个不太可能的地方开始。

英文摘要:

Neither the world nor science came to an end when the gunfire stopped on 11 November 1918 (close to 11 AM in some time zone), but neither would ever be the same again. Part I of this inquiry (Observatory 138, 46-58, April 2018) looked at the development of general relativity under the Rubric of Gerald Holton's "Only Einstein, only there, only then." Part II (Observatory 138, 98 116, June, 2018) addressed the activities, relativistic, classical, and otherwise of many (mostly) physicists who were interacting with Einstein, working on relativistic gravity, or, sometimes, against it, and leaving tracks that can still be followed. Part III considers some of what happened to Einstein, his theory of gravity, and related science after the war and, perhaps, because of it. A subset of the items will probably be familiar -- the 1919 eclipse expedition and the founding of the International Astronomical Union the same year, Einsteins 1921 Nobel Prize (for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect). Others perhaps less so, including a flood of books about GR (pro and con) with the end of paper rationing surely playing a role, AE's 1922 trip to Paris, and the gory details, swings and roundabouts of gravitational radiation/waves and the cosmological constant. It is left as an exercise for the reader to decide which items are primarily scientific and which primarily political. The long-range issues of "is general relativity the right theory of gravity?" and "do we have better wars?" come at the end. And I am going to start in a slightly improbable place.

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