Although the context in which he used them turned out to be incorrect (it appears that there is no ether), the equations themselves are the same as those Einstein derived in 1905 to describe ...

IN the discussion on relativity at the Royal Society on February 5 (NATURE, February 12), Mr. Jeans stated that the FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction theory presented grave difficulties in the case ...

The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive ... In particular, it will appear shorter by a factor equal to one divided by the Lorentz factor. The latter depends only on the ...

While Lorenz might be known for coining the “Butterfly Effect” in relation to chaos theory, Lin says that the discovery of chaos theory actually dates back to the 1890s and a mathematician and ...

The most obvious extension of Maxwell's theory to the case of moving bodies was incompatible with the results of experiment. At this point, H. A. Lorentz came to the rescue. In view of his ...

and the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of electricity. It is a wonderful performance—judicious, scholarly, well written, and sparkling with apt comparisons and illustrations. A little masterpiece in ...