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Does an outlook for the future emerge from our analysis? In the course of this work we have often pointed out that the fate of relativism appears to us to depend, above all, on future experimental observations. We fully appreciate that this precludes any effective action by philosophical criticism in this domain, and such a position may seem excessive. In particular, it will be asked whether certain circumstances we have brought to light here do not justify the belief that there are other reasons besides experimental ones for physicists to return without delay to the concepts of space and time that characterize our immediate perception.
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Einstein, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Physikalisch-mathematische Klasse, 1923, pp. 32, 76, 137; Elie Cartan, in Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de I’Académie des Sciences, 174 (1922): 437, 593, 734,857,1104.
Planck, PRB 140 ff.; Eng. 96 ff. Cf. how the continuity of the static and dynamic fields, which is the great triumph of Maxwell’s theory, would also be sacrificed in this case (PRB 165; Eng. 114).
Cf. Edouaxd Branly’s declarations in Science et Voyages, no. 16 (18 Dec. 1919 ).
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Meyerson, É. (1985). The Outlook for the Future. In: The Relativistic Deduction. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5211-9_26
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