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How Einstein Made Asymmetry Disappear: Symmetry and Relativity in 1905.
- Source :
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences; Jul2005, Vol. 59 Issue 5, p437-544, 108p
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- This article discusses how Albert Einstein, a physicist made asymmetry disappear. Making asymmetry disappear has proved to be one of the significant moves that Einstein took in his annus mirabilis of 1905. The result of the research was surprising: Einstein removed the asymmetry in electrodynamics successfully but, at the same time, he did not apply symmetry as a heuristic or methodological tool in physics; nevertheless, he invoked the term symmetry in a number of contexts following, by and large, contemporary usage of mathematical reasoning in physics.
- Subjects :
- PHYSICISTS
RESEARCH
MATHEMATICS
METHODOLOGY
HEURISTIC
PROBABILITY theory
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00039519
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17406423
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-005-0098-9