From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@BRL@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re:  Good books and discussion of relativity...
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4379
Posted: Wed Nov 24 14:01:07 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 10:04:46 1982

From:     Doug Gwyn <gwyn@BRL>
One problem I have with many of the accepted "good books" is that I
disagree with their interpretation of some of the more philosophical
aspects of relativity theory.  Since I learned the subject by studying
the original works (Einstein, Eddington, Weyl, Schrodinger, etc.), I
suspect that these authors may also have had some disagreements with
current interpretations of their work.

Of course, one has to watch out when saying things like this.  I've seen
some well-known books say something like "We're SURE that this theory
would be acceptable to Einstein" when discussing a probabilistic (quantum)
theory, in spite of Einstein's repeated emphasis that such a theory was
NOT acceptable to him!