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INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME
3
of
the
sun,[72]
a
subject
on
which he
corresponded
with
George Ellery
Hale
at
the Mount Wilson
Observatory
two
years
later.[73]
There
would, however,
be
no
reliable results
on
either of these
subjects
for
years
to
come.
But whether
or
not
there
were
experimental
results
to
help
in
guiding
his
work,
generaliz-
ing relativity
and
creating
a new
theory
of
gravitation
became the
problem
that
absorbed his
attention
for the
next few
years.[74]
"I
am
just
now
lecturing
on
the foundations of
that
poor,
dead
mechanics,
which
is
so
beautiful,"
he
wrote to
Zangger
a
month after the
Solvay
Con-
gress.
"What
will
its
successor
look
like?
With
that
question
I torment
myself
ceaselessly."[75]
[72]Einstein
to
Erwin
Freundlich,
1
September
1911.
[73]Einstein
to George Hale, 14
October
1913.
[74]See Vols.
4,
5,
and
6.
[75]"Ich
lese
gerade
die Fundamente
der
armen, gestorbenen
Mechanik,
die
so
schön
ist. Wie
wird ihre
Nachfolgerin
aussehen?
Damit
plage
ich
mich unaufhörlich." Einstein
to
Heinrich
Zangger, 15
November
1911.
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