Images of Empty Space: Einstein's Word Pictures

Abstract

Einstein can hardly be called prolix in his initial presentation of the Theory of Relativity. Nor can we suppose that he was writing down to his readers. Hence the relative simplicity of the images he asks his readers to construct is striking. The images of the paper on relativity can perhaps provide us with at elast some estimates of the upper bounds of human imaging capability -- of the extent to which problems have to be factored into their component parts before the human mind can encompass them. Keywords: Problem solving; Problem representation; Diagrams; Visual imagery; Publication.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 10, 1988
Accession Number
ADA219272

Entities

People

  • Herbert Simon

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bodies
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electrodynamics
  • Equations
  • Formal Languages
  • Images
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Observers
  • Physical Theories
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • Relativity Theory
  • Special Relativity
  • United States

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Computer Vision.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.

Technology Areas

  • Space