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Re:Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's ... by sampo on Saturday December 07, 2013 @05:59AM (#6866129)
> 1905 General Theory of Relativity paper

Special relativity. On general relativity he worked from 1907 to 1915.

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Re:Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's ... by RamiK on Sunday December 08, 2013 @09:00AM (#6869695)
Yeah. Sorry. Copy pasted badly. The link was right though...

Speaking of which:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_general_relativity#...

Seems he had most of the concept nailed down by 1907 but was struggling with the math. So, he worked the module step-by-step only adding gravity in 1915 after learning about Riemannian manifolds.

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