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INDEX
  • Eclipse, observations during, 113
  • Ehrenfest's paradox, 75
  • Electrical theory of inertia, 61
  • Electricity and gravitation, 167
  • Electromagnetic potentials and forces, 172
  • Electron, dimensions of, 177; geometry inside, 91; gravitational mass of, 178; inertia of, 61; Kaufmann's experiment on, 62, 146; singularity in field, 167
  • "Elsewhere," 50
  • Emptiness, perception of, 190
  • Energy, conservation of, 139; identified with mass, 146; inertia of, 61, 146; weight of radio-active, 112
  • Entropy, 149
  • Eötvös torsion-balance, 112
  • Equivalence, Principle of, 76, 131, 212
  • Euclidean geometry, 1, 47, 73
  • Euclidean space of five dimensions, 84
  • Event, definition of, 45, 186
  • Evershed, 130
  • Extension in four dimensions, 37, 46


  • Feeling, elements of, 192
  • Fields of force, artificial, 64; due to disturbance of observer, 69; electromagnetic, 171; relativity of, 67
  • Field of velocity, 195
  • FitzGerald contraction, 19; consequences of, 22; modified by acceleration, 75; relativity explanation of, 54
  • Flat space in two dimensions, 80
  • Flat space-time, 83; at infinity, 84; conditions for, 89
  • Flatfish, analogy of, 95
  • Flatland, 57
  • Force, compared with inertia, 137; electromagnetic, 172; elementary conception of, 63; fields of, 64; relativity of, 43, 67, 76
  • Form contrasted with content, 192, 200
  • Formalism of knowledge, 175
  • Foucault's pendulum, 152
  • Four-dimensional order, 35, 56, 186
  • Four-dimensional space-time, geometry of, 45, 82; reality of, 181
  • Fourth dimension, 13
  • Frame, inertial, 156
  • Frames of reference, "right" and "wrong," 42
  • Freewill, 51
  • Freundlich, 212
  • Future, absolute, 50


  • Galilean potentials, 83
  • Gauge, effect on observations, 31; provided by radius of space, 177
  • Gauge-system, 169
  • Geodesic, absolute significance of, 70, 150; definition of, 75; motion of particles in, 138, 151; in regions at infinity, 157
  • Geodesic structure, absolute character of, 155, 164; acceleration of, 195
  • Geometrical conception of the world, 176, 183
  • Geometry, Euclidean, 1; hyperbolic, 47; Lobatchewskian, 1, 9; natural, 2; non-Euclidean, or Riemannian, 6, 73, 84, 90; non-Riemannian, 169; semi-Euclidean, 47
  • Ghosts of stars, 161
  • Globe of water, limit to size of, 148
  • Gravitation, Einstein's law of, differential formula, 90; integrated formula for a particle, 97; macroscopic equations, 140, 193
  • Gravitation, Newton's law of, ambiguity of, 93; approximation to Einstein's law, 103; deflection of light, 109, 111
  • Gravitation, propagation with velocity of light, 94, 147; relativity for uniform motion, 21, 125
  • Gravitational field of Sun, 97; deflection of light, 107, 118, 207; displacement of spectral lines, 129; motion of perihelion, 122, 206; Newtonian attraction, 102; result of observational verification, 126
  • Grebe and Bachem, 130
  • Greenwich, Royal Observatory, 114
  • Gyro-compass, 152


  • Hummock in space-time, 97
  • Hurdles, analogy of counts of, 104
  • Hyperbolic geometry, 47