The Struble-Einstein Correspondence

Abstract

This article presents hitherto unpublished correspondence of Struble in 1947 with Menger, Chandrasekhar, and eventually Einstein, about a possible observational test supporting Einstein's special relativity against Ritz's emission theory using binary stars. This `Struble effect,' an acceleration Doppler effect in emission theory, appears to have been overlooked, and the historical context, including de Sitter's binary star test of special relativity, is also discussed.

11 pages, 3 figures. For Proceedings of the 15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (2018), session HR1