| 书目名称 | Understanding Relativity | | 副标题 | Origin and Impact of | | 编辑 | Stanley Goldberg | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The central subject matter of this book is Einstein‘s special theory of relativiry. While it is a book that is written primarily for a lay audience this does not necessarily mean an audience not versed in the ways of doing science. Rather, this book is written for anyone wishing to consider the nature of the scientific enterprise: where ideas come from, how they become established and accepted, what the relationships are among theories, predictions, and measurements, or the relationship between ideas in a scientific theory and the values held to be important within the larger culture. Some readers will find it strange that I raise any of these issues. It is a common view in our culture that the status of knowledge within science is totally different from the status of knowledge in other areas of human endeavor. The word "science" stems from the Latin word meaning "to know" and indeed, knowledge which scientists acquire in their work is commonly held to be certain, unyielding, and absolute. Consider how we use the adjective "scientific. " There are investors and there are scientific investors. There are socialists and there are scientific socialists. There are exterminators and ther | | 出版日期 | Book 1984 | | 关键词 | Special relativity; Time dilation; relativity; special theory of relativity; theory of relativity | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6732-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-6734-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-6732-1 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984 |
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