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Re: Einstein, Dirac and so on....

#7724
From: Bilge
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:52
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 Cozmo Man: 
 >davidoff404 wrote:
 >> Franco wrote:
 >>> Most of people handle Einstein as he was the most physicist.
 >>>
 >>> I can't help thinking that most "that" people, IGNORE the history
 >>> of physics.
 >>>
 >>> For instance, there are a lot of physicists. Paul Dirac in my
 >>> opinion is better than Einstein. Of course that's only my opinion.
 >>>
 >>> But I can't stand that most of people do not know who Paul Dirac
 >>> was.
 >>>
 >>> Franco
 >>>
 >>>
 >>
 >> Instead of asking "Who is your favourite physicist," I find that
 >> better discussions arise out of asking "What's your favourite
 >> manifold?", "What's your favourite gauge group?", or "What's your
 >> favourite spacetime?"
 >
 >a. Hyper-Kaehler manifold, or more generally Quaternion-Kaehler
 >manifolds.
 >
 >b. G-structure and torsion-free G-connection: G -> GL(n,H)GL(1,H) of
 >GL(4n,R).
 >
 >c. If I told you, I would have to kill you. We take our spacetimes
 >very seriously around here.
 >
 >>
 >> Besides, everyone knows that Hamilton was the "best"
 >> physicist/mathematician...
 >
 >Wasn't Hamilton in a duel with Burr?
 >

  Yeah. Hamilton won because burr didn't know about hamilton's
principle and burr's bullet wandered around so long it fell
to the ground and never made it to the target.
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Subject: Re: Einstein, Dirac and so on....
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