Re:One Einstein Is Worth a Legion of PhD Drones
by antognini on Friday November 19, 2021 @06:55PM
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Poincaré was very close to the special theory of relativity when Einstein published "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" in 1905. And David Hilbert discovered the Einstein Field Equations a few days before Einstein. (They really should be called the Hilbert-Einstein Field Equations.) If Einstein hadn't existed we wouldn't have had to wait generations to learn of relativity.
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Re:One Einstein Is Worth a Legion of PhD Drones
by kryptiskt on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:17PM
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There is no way Hilbert would have been working with that without Einstein's work. Hilbert was a mathematician, not a physicist, who based it all on Einstein's premises.
Re:One Einstein Is Worth a Legion of PhD Drones
by taylodl on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:01PM
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You may find this interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_di...