Einstein's GR in Plain English

[Chalky]

On a historical note, does anyone know when Einstein's revolutionary
GR paper was first published in English?

It is obvious that at least one British physicist understood its
implications quite quickly, but that may have been because he was also
fluent in German.

I have also noticed that this thesis is sometimes attributed a date of
1915, and, sometimes, 1916.

Does anyone know why that is?

Could it be because he submitted that thesis in 1915, but didn't get
it published until 1916?

[brad]

The First World War was raging across Europe. Einstein was a
conscientous
objector and barely escaped prison. A copy was smuggled to Holland.
DeSitter received that copy in spring of 1916. He translated it and
smuggled
it to Eddington. By June of 1916 Eddington had decided it was so
important
he introduced it. He also hoped he could show the world that science
transcended politics by pointing out it was a German/Austrian who had
wanted
the world to see that war could not impede intellectual progress and
scientific
cooperation across borders.

Brad

[glird]

That's possible. His 1905 Restricted Theory paper was submitted to
the publisher on June 30, but wasn't published until September,

[Oh No]

Thus spake Chalky <chalk...@bleachboys.co.uk>

yes. The paper was distributed to various people in 1915, which is how
Schwarzschild found the first solution to the field equation before it's
formal publication date.

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[Lothar Arendes]

Hi!

Before Einstein announced the final version of general relativity
theory, David Hilbert published the final theory. However, he
interpreted the mathematics of his theory not in a relativistic way
but as an absolute theory. Einstein later agreed that the absolute
interpretation is possible, but he was against it and in favor of the
relativity interpretation because of epistemelogical reasons - hence,
not primarily because of reasons from physics.
I would like to know when Hilbert's theory (his mathematics + his
interpretation) was translated into English and whether there was a
discussion within the English community if the absolute interpretation
would be correct.

By, Lothar Arendes

http://larendes.blogspot.com