The mathematical form and physical content of unified field theories derived from a variational principle
The Einstein theory of general relativity reduces as a first approximation to the old Newtonian theory and provides a satisfactory amount of such small effects as the notion of the perihelion of Mercury and the gravitational deflection of light. The greatest triumph of the theory, however, is that t...
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University of Oxford
1954
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