ABSTRACT

In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein‘s celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific detail in this eye

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|7 pages

Pre-Einsteinian notions of relativity

chapter 4|4 pages

The Michelson–Morley experiment

chapter 5|6 pages

Efforts to save the ether hypothesis

chapter 6|4 pages

The Lorentz theory of the electron

chapter 7|6 pages

Further development of the Lorentz theory

chapter 9|5 pages

The Lorentz transformation

chapter 15|5 pages

Addition of velocities

chapter 16|5 pages

The principle of relativity

chapter 17|8 pages

Some applications of relativity

chapter 18|13 pages

Momentum and mass in relativity

chapter 19|6 pages

The equivalence of mass and energy

chapter 25|10 pages

The falsification of theories

chapter 26|17 pages

The Minkowski diagram and the K calculus

chapter 29|4 pages

Proper time

chapter 30|10 pages

The “paradox” of the twins