Excerpt from A Theory of Gravitation, and Related Phenomena This paper has been written in the brief intervals that could be spared from other duties, and was first completed in July, 1911. It was then laid aside and remained untouched for four years, though during this time spare moments were devoted to further study of the subject. In August, 1915, a change was made in one of the assumptions concerning the properties of the ether, and about one fifth of the paper was rewritten. The writer regrets that time has not been ...
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Excerpt from A Theory of Gravitation, and Related Phenomena This paper has been written in the brief intervals that could be spared from other duties, and was first completed in July, 1911. It was then laid aside and remained untouched for four years, though during this time spare moments were devoted to further study of the subject. In August, 1915, a change was made in one of the assumptions concerning the properties of the ether, and about one fifth of the paper was rewritten. The writer regrets that time has not been available for fuller development of the theory. The idea that the gravitational attraction between two bodies is due to distortion of the ether between them, in virtue of which a stress exists which is inversely proportional to the distortion causing it, which idea is more or less vaguely expressed in the literature of the subject, and which appears to be more or less firmly fixed in the minds of many physicists, has always seemed abhorrent to the writer. According to this idea, the potential energy represented by the attraction between the bodies of the universe is stored in the ether, the total energy increasing as the stress representing it decreases. According to the theory here presented this energy is dynamic, and is found in the internal energy of atoms. The amount of energy of motion a body can generate by attraction on other bodies is thus limited to the amount of its own internal energy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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