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Article #4582Re: GR with no Einstein? (Was: Re: No big crunch?)
From: Gene W. Smith
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:41
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:41
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In article <1992Nov9.182446.13635@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
> Though many people were working on gravitation, and always had been
> working on gravitation (and there are still people working on
> alternatives), it wasn't like there was any vastly compelling reason to
> overthrow Newton.
Once you've bought special relativity (and about that you have no
choice) you've *got* to work on alternatives to Newton. Moreover, you
are forced into nonlinear alternatives. I think by working up from
the linearization, you would be led to a local theory which was
Einstein's locally, and from there it would become obvious.
Basically, what I am saying is that Einstein's theory in its pure (no
cosmological constant) form is the simplest classical theory uniting
gravitation with special relativity, and so would have been discovered
eventually--in the 40's or 50's, say.
--
Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!uni-heidelberg!lauren!gsmith From: gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) Subject: Re: GR with no Einstein? (Was: Re: No big crunch?) Message-ID: <1992Nov10.174154.1255@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Sender: news@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (NetNews) Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany References: <1992Nov7.034056.1944@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <COLUMBUS.92Nov9104245@strident.think.com> <1992Nov9.182446.13635@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:41:54 GMT Lines: 22