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Supplying an unique point of view on international towns and the influence of globalization upon them, prime professionals give a contribution to this devoted examine of significant towns in nations outdoor the industrialized West: Bangkok, Mumbai, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico urban, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore. All play vital worldwide and local roles, and the individuals examine their historic paths to their current international positions and difficulties.
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For if we inquire into the deviations shown by the consequences of the general theory of relativity which are accessible to experience, when these are compared with the consequences of the Newtonian theory, we first of all find a deviation which shows itself in close proximity to gravitating mass, and has been confirmed in the case of the planet Mercury. But if the universe is spatially finite there is a second deviation from the Newtonian theory, which, in the language of the Newtonian theory, may be expressed thus:—The gravitational field is in its nature such as if it were produced, not only by the ponderable masses, but also by a mass-density of negative sign, distributed uniformly throughout space.
If it moves on the spherical surface away from S upwards, the disc shadow L′ on the plane also moves away from S on the plane outwards, growing bigger and bigger. As the disc L approaches the luminous point N, the shadow moves off to infinity, and becomes infinitely great. Now we put the question, What are the laws of disposition of the discshadows L′ on the plane E? Evidently they are exactly the same as the laws of disposition of the discs L on the spherical surface. For to each original figure on K there is a corresponding shadow figure on E.
My only aim today has been to show that the human faculty of visualisation is by no means bound to capitulate to non-Euclidean geometry. * This is intelligible without calculation—but only for the two-dimensional case—if we revert once more to the case of the disc on the surface of the sphere.