InhaltsangabeAutobiographical Reflections; J. Stachel. Introduction; A. Ashtekar, J. Renn, A. Shimony.

I: Historical and Philosophical Roots of Relativity. The Prehistory of Relativity; J. Eisenstaedt. Interpretations and Equations of the Michelson Experiment and its Variations; H. Melcher. The Trouton Experiment, E = mc2, and a Slice of Minkowski Space-Time; M. Janssen. The N-Stein Family; J.D. Norton. Eclipses of the Stars: Mandi, Einstein, and the Early History of Gravitational Lensing; J. Renn, T. Sauer. The Varieties of Unity: Sounding Unified Theories 1920-1930; C. Goldstein, J. Bitter. Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: The Case for Non-Reductive Relationalism; S. Saunders. On Relative Orbital Rotation in Relativity Theory; D.B. Malament.

II: Foundational Issues in Relativity and their Advancement. The Unique Nature of Cosmology; G.F.R. Ellis. Time, Structure, and Evolution in Cosmology; L. Smolin. Timekeeping in an Expanding Universe; J.L. Anderson. Gravitational Lensing from a Space-Time Perspective; J. Ehlers, S. Frittelli, E.T. Newman. Rigidly Rotating Disk Revisted; C.V. Vishveshwara. DSS 2+2; R.A. d'Inverno. Geometry, Null Hypersurfaces and New Variables; D.C. Robinson. On Vacuum Twisting Type-N Again; J.F. Plebanski, M. Przanowski. Quasi-Local Energy; J.N. Goldberg. Space-Time Defects: Open and Closed Shells Revisited; R.J. Gleiser, P.S. Letelier. Dimensionally Challenged Gravities; S. Deser. A Note on Holonomic Constraints; W.M. Tulczyjew. Towards an Action-at-a-Distance Concept of Spacetime; D.H. Wesley, J.A. Wheeler.

III: Foundational Issues in Quantum Physics and their Advancement. Inevitability, Inseparability and Gedanken Measurement; M. Beller. The Concept of Quantum State: New Views on Old Phenomena; M. Paty. Elementary Processes; D. Ritz Finkelstein. On Quantum Non-Locality, Special Relativity, and Counterfactual Reasoning; A. Shimony, H. Stein. Coherence, Entanglement and Reductionist Explanation in Quantum Physics; G. Jaeger, S. Sarkar.

IV: Science, History and the Challenges of Progress. Physics and Science Fiction; A.I. Janis. Can We Learn From History? Do We Want To? L. Tisza. Patterns of Appropriation in the Greek Intellectual Life of the 18th Century: Case Study on the Notion of Time; K. Gavroglu, M. Patiniotis. Darwin, Marx and Warranted Progress: Materialism and Views of Development in Nineteenth-Century Germany; W. Lefèvre. Albert Einstein and the Founding of Brandeis University; S.S. Schweber.

Appendix: John Stachel's Publications.