Einstein's `Zürich Notebook' and his Journey to General Relativity

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2011-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/1106.0900v1

Annalen Phys.523:488-500,2011

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

19 pages, invited talk at the conference "Cosmology since Einstein", Hong Kong, 30 May -- 1 June, 2011

Scientific paper

10.1002/andp.201110467

On the basis of his `Z\"urich Notebook' I shall describe a particularly fruitful phase in Einstein's struggle on the way to general relativity. These research notes are an extremely illuminating source for understanding Einstein's main physical arguments and conceptual difficulties that delayed his discovery of general relativity by about three years. Together with the `Entwurf' theory in collaboration with Marcel Grossmann, these notes also show that the final theory was missed late in 1912 within a hair's breadth. The Einstein-Grossmann theory, published almost exactly hundred years ago, contains, however, virtually all essential elements of Einstein's definite gravitation theory.

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