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Easy Lessons in Einstein

Name: Easy Lessons in Einstein
Author: Edwin E. Slosson

Edwin E. Slosson

Read by Availle, J. M. Smallheer, Guero, Tom Crawford, Adrian Wheal, Matthew Reece and Paul Adams · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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A Prefatorial Dialogue, A New View of Gravitation (14:35)
Contradictory Experiments, The Conundrum of the Ages (10:38)
Paradoxes of Relativity, Are You Sure of Your Shape? (13:55)
Introducing the Fourth Dimension, Time as the Fouth Dimension (15:14)
A Worm’s-Eye View of the World, Turning Time Backward, the Metaphysics of the Movies (16:55)
The Egocentric Theory of the Universe (11:19)
Non-Euclidean Geometry, Some Simple Examples (14:29)
The Eclipse Observations (20:50)
Who is Einstein? How to Lose Weight, A Substitute for Gravity (19:55)
The Weight of Light, Mutable Theories and Stable Facts, Scientific Versus Legal Laws (23:50)
Time, Space, and Gravitation, by Dr Albert Einstein (10:49)