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The Special Theory of Relativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Hermann Bondi
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It does indeed give me great pleasure to have been honoured by the request to give this lecture. And it is with a little trepidation that I have chosen my subject, the very title of which could frighten off many people, and I am very glad to see that your Institute consists of people made of sterner stuff. On the other hand, I did feel that the subject in question met the nature of this lecture. It was generally cultural and it relates to navigation. And so let me start on this subject which has a reputation for being difficult. And let me assure you that Einstein's work on relativity is not at all difficult. It is very simple. But it rests on the extremely difficult, abstract theories that we owe to Galileo and to Newton.

Type
The Duke of Edinburgh Lecture
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , May 1980 , pp. 155 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1980

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