HR1 - History of Relativity and Cosmology ( |
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Werner, Marcus |
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The Struble-Einstein Correspondence |
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Raimond Struble (1924–2013) was a professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. In 1947, as a student, he corresponded with Chandrasekhar at Yerkes Observatory and Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study about the implications of binary star observations for the velocity addition of light, effectively a test of special relativity versus emission theory. Struble pointed out that there is an acceleration effect hitherto overlooked in tests of emission theory. In this talk, I discuss the scientific context of this `Struble effect' and the contents of this privately held, unpublished Einstein correspondence. |
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