1912: A turning point on Einstein's way to general relativity |
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| Authors: | A.S. Blum Jürgen Renn Donald C. Salisbury Matthias Schemmel Kurt Sundermeyer |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG, Berlin, Germany;2. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany;3. Austin College, Texas, Sherman, USA;4. TOPOI Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | On his way to general relativity, Einstein used the equivalence principle to formulate a theory of the static gravitational field. In this context he introduced an approximate coordinate transformation to an accelerated frame which turns out to be closely related to Rindler coordinates, widely used in modern general relativity. This work, published in the Annalen, led him directly to interpret gravitation in terms of spacetime curvature. |
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