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About: Four-force is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3459 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87308 citations.
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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The general theory of relativity is considered to be Albert Einstein's masterpiece in theoretical physics as mentioned in this paper, where scientists like Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincare worked in parallel, motivated by the unsolved physical problems existing at the beginning of the twentieth century, such as motion with respect to the aether and the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment.
Abstract: The general theory of relativity is considered to be Albert Einstein’s masterpiece in theoretical physics. In contrast with special relativity, where scientists like Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincare worked in parallel, motivated by the unsolved physical problems existing at the beginning of the twentieth century (for instance, motion with respect to the aether and the negative result of the Michelson–Morley experiment), there was no such motivation for general relativity. With the exception of an anomaly in the precession of Mercury’s orbit, the Newtonian theory of gravitation did not manifest symptoms of obsolescence.
68 citations
01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The emergence and early history of a rival mathematical formalism to the Sommerfeld-Laue spacetime calculus for use in relativity theory is described in this article, where the authors describe the early history and evolution of this formalism.
Abstract: The emergence and early history of a rival mathematical formalism to the Sommerfeld-Laue spacetime calculus for use in relativity theory is described.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that a relativistic formulation of thermodynamics or statistical mechanics has as its aim to provide a unique correspondence between the descriptions which different observers in uniform relative motion will give of a thermodynamic system.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new expression for the spin connection of teleparallel gravity is proposed, given by minus the contorsion tensor plus a zero connection, and the corresponding minimal coupling is covariant under local Lorentz transformation, and equivalent to the minimal coupling prescription of general relativity.
Abstract: A new expression for the spin connection of teleparallel gravity is proposed, given by minus the contorsion tensor plus a zero connection. The corresponding minimal coupling is covariant under local Lorentz transformation, and equivalent to the minimal coupling prescription of general relativity. With this coupling prescription, therefore, teleparallel gravity turns out to be fully equivalent to general relativity, even in the presence of spinor fields.
67 citations