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The article focuses on the history of space-time physics. It states author H.G. Wells wrote a short story that the novel "The Time Machine" was based on in in 1889, a year after physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley tried to measure the Earth's velocity relative to the theoretical substance...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 416; no. 8954; pp. 76 - 78 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
9/5/2015
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the history of space-time physics. It states author H.G. Wells wrote a short story that the novel "The Time Machine" was based on in in 1889, a year after physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley tried to measure the Earth's velocity relative to the theoretical substance called aether, and found no differences in the speed of light. It comments on physicist Albert Einstein's theory on space-time and Arthur Eddington's research on the second law of thermodynamics. |
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