The General Physical Theory of Relativity

On the general relativity theory

In Appendix III of the fifth edition of his book Space, Time, Matter [15] henceforth cited as W (which has not been translated into English), Hermann Weyl derived for the first time, motivated by cosmological considerations, the general frequency shift formula for sources and observers moving arbitrarily in a general spacetime. In his discussion of cosmology (W, 39) he argued for a non-stationa...

Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

Measurement Theory and General Relativity

The theory of measurement is employed to elucidate the physical basis of general relativity. For measurements involving phenomena with intrinsic length or time scales, such scales must in general be negligible compared to the (translational and rotational) scales characteristic of the motion of the observer. Thus general relativity is a consistent theory of coincidences so long as these involve...

Electrodynamics in the General Relativity Theory.

The restricted relativity theory resulted mathematically in the introduction of pseudo-euclidean four-dimensional space and the welding together of the electric and magnetic force vectors into the electromagnetic tensor. Einstein's general relativity theory led to the assumption that the fourdimensional space mentioned above is a curved space and the curvature was made to account for the gravit...

Physical Significance of the Difference between the Brans-Dicke Theory and General Relativity

The asymptotic behavior of the scalar field and its physical meaning are discussed for T = 0 and T 6= 0 for the large enough coupling parameter ω. The special character of the Brans-Dicke theory is also discussed for local and cosmological problems in comparison with general relativity and the selection rules are introduced respectivley. The scalar field by locally-distributed matter should exh...