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LudwigNagasena
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How Einstein arrived at his theory of general rela...
Are Newton, Galileo, Coulomb and Archimedes more important to general relativity?
avmich
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> Archimedes, the ancient Greek philosopher, had asserted that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones.
Wasn't that Aristotle?
not2b
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Than Hilbert? No. Riemann, perhaps. Making it work was all about the proper non-Euclidean geometry. Einstein needed to learn the right mathematics.
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