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RefNoMS/603/7/290
Previous numbers1318
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Oliver J [Joseph] Lodge, Normanton House, Lake, near Salisbury, to [Joseph] Larmor
CreatorLodge; Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940); British physicist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date9 September 1922
DescriptionHe thanks Larmor for writing to him the interesting Einstein letter. 'Mathematical analysis rightly leaves the world behind and soars into a region of its own'. He describes a writer to 'The Times' saying the same about music, explaining that this is the reason for child prodigies with no actual experience. Relativity confronts with the attempt to link such mathematics with physical facts. He thinks there must be a dynamical method too, but this requires the evolution of the dynamics of the aether. He agrees that radiation cannot have all the properties of matter; there seems no reason to suppose that is is subject to gravity. Lodge had not realise the Newton-Eötvös principle could be expressed separately from the Newtonian; they will know one day if the Einstein deviation is double the value. He cannot think that anyone believs that M produces an effective warp. 'The attempted marriage between genuine physics and hyper-geometry was sure to lead to confusions'.
Extent3p.
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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