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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of mass and angular momentum on source-free regions are discussed and some of these effects, especially those generated by mass, angular momentum and mass, are discussed.
1,037 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a constant curvature model for two dimensional space-time, analogous to the theory in three dimensional space time, is proposed, which avoids the triviality of the planar Einstein model by adding sources and a topological mass term.
981 citations
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01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: Pais and Albert Einstein this paper were friends and correspondents for the last nine years of Einstein's life, and Pais' account of the life and work of the 20th century's most famous scientist draws on a wealth of previously unpublished papers and personal recollections.
Abstract: Abraham Pais and Albert Einstein were friends and correspondents for the last nine years of Einstein's life. This definitive account of the life and work of the 20th century's most famous scientist draws on a wealth of previously unpublished papers and personal recollections.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the bound state postulate uniquely entails the spatial dimensionality of geodesic equations of motion obtained from a generalization of the Schwarzschild field to static systems with hyperspherical symmetry.
Abstract: The fact that our present laws of physics admit of a formal extension to spaces of an arbitrary number of dimensions suggests that there must be some principle (or principles) operative which in conjunction with these laws entails the observed specificity of spatial dimensionality,n=3. Generalizing from an approach suggested by the work ofEhrenfest (and independently byG. J. Whitrow) on the Newtonian keplerian problem inn dimensions, it is proposed that this principle may be tentatively summarized in the postulate that there shall be stable bound orbits or «states» for the equations of motion governing the interaction of bodies (considered as «material points’). This postulate is applied to the geodesic equations of motion obtained from a generalization of the Schwarzschild field to static systems with hyper-spherical symmetry, and it is shown that the bound state postulate uniquely entails the spatial dimensionality. This result is not entirely peculiar, to general relativity because it also holds for Newtonian theory (Ehrenfest-Whitrow) if one also introduces an asymptotic condition to exclude casesn 3, and in conjunction with the asymptotic conditionn<3. An attempt is made to understand the logical origin of this postulate and it is argued that if one assumes the basic representatives of a dynamics with a metric to be material points, one needs such a postulate to construct Einstein’s «practically rigid rods», since point bodies in themselves do not provide us with a measure of distance. Some brief qualitative applications of these ideas are, made to quantum electrodynamics.
936 citations
01 Jan 1968
TL;DR: For the first half of the twentieth century, outside the totalitarian states, the most celebrated paragons have been Gandhi, Schweitzer, and Einstein; and of these the most influential as a thinker was clearly Albert Einstein this article.
Abstract: Every modern century has its paragons, its culture-heroes, who fill the place once taken by saints and messiahs. For the first half of the twentieth century, outside the totalitarian states, the most celebrated paragons have been Gandhi, Schweitzer, and Einstein; and of these the most influential as a thinker was clearly Albert Einstein.
928 citations