Physics before and after Einstein

Title page......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Albert Einstein: A Portrait......Page 9
Mechanics and Electromagnetism in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Dynamics of Maxwell’s Ether......Page 29
Mechanistic Science, Thermodynamics, and Industry at the End of the Nineteenth Centur y......Page 57
The Origins and Concepts of Special Relativity......Page 79
General Relativity: Gravitation as Geometry and the Machian Programme......Page 101
The Rebirth of Cosmology: From the Static to the Expanding Universe......Page 137
Testing Relativity......Page 171
Einstein and Quantum Theory......Page 191
The Quantum Debate: From Einstein to Bell and Beyond......Page 213
Special Relativity and the Development of High-Energy Particle Physics......Page 241
Quantum Theory and Gravitation......Page 261
Superluminal Waves and Objects: Theory and Experiments. A Panoramic Introduction......Page 275
Standard Cosmology and Other Possible Universes......Page 293