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A contribution to: Science and Literature

Edited by Alex Stuart and Jessica Goodman

MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 7

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  Towards the end of his 1922 essay Fantasia of the Unconscious, D. H. Lawrence provides an extended summary of 'what I understand of the Einstein theory'. Despite his claim elsewhere that 'I like relativity and quantum theories | because I don't understand them', here Lawrence demonstrates a perhaps unexpected grasp of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity: there is no one absolute force in the physical universe; mechanical principles can only be known in their relation to one another, or, more accurately, in relation to their particular frame of reference; and the relation between mechanical forces is constant and is expressed using the Lorentz Transformations.

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