creators_name: Janssen, Michel
type: pittpreprint
datestamp: 2008-12-18
lastmod: 2010-10-07 15:17:31
metadata_visibility: show
title: 'No Success like Failure ...': Einstein's Quest for General Relativity, 1907-1920
subjects: relativity-theory
full_text_status: public
keywords: general relativity, equivalence principle, general covariance, Mach's principle, absolute versus relative motion, substantivalism versus relationism, hole argument, point-coincidence argument, Newton's bucket experiment, Einstein-De Sitter debate, cosmological constant, Entwurf theory, Nordstroem theory
abstract: This is the chapter on general relativity for the Cambridge Companion to Einstein which I am co-editing with Christoph Lehner.
date: 2008-12
date_type: published
citation: Janssen, Michel (2008) 'No Success like Failure ...': Einstein's Quest for General Relativity, 1907-1920. [Preprint]
document_url: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4377/1/LoveMinusZero.pdf