PHYSICS BEFORE AND AFTER EINSTEIN
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: ALBERT EINSTEIN: A PORTRAIT CHAPTER 2: MECHANICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE DYNAMICS OF MAXWELL’S ETHER CHAPTER 3: MECHANISTIC SCIENCE, THERMODYNAMICS, AND INDUSTRY AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER 4: THE ORIGINS AND CONCEPTS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY CHAPTER 5: GENERAL RELATIVITY: GRAVITATION AS GEOMETRY AND THE MACHIAN PROGRAMME CHAPTER 6: THE REBIRTH OF COSMOLOGY: FROM THE STATIC TO THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE CHAPTER 7: TESTING RELATIVITY CHAPTER 8: EINSTEIN AND QUANTUM THEORY CHAPTER 9: THE QUANTUM DEBATE: FROM EINSTEIN TO BELL AND BEYOND CHAPTER 10: SPECIAL RELATIVITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLE PHYSICS CHAPTER 11: QUANTUM THEORY AND GRAVITATION CHAPTER 12: SUPERLUMINAL WAVES AND OBJECTS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS A PANORAMIC INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 13: STANDARD COSMOLOGY AND OTHER POSSIBLE UNIVERSES