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Old 01-September-2006, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
That's special relativity, not general relativity, which came ten years later
Not quite. In his own popular account of the theory of relativity, Einstein started the GR chapter with the sticks and clocks of SR but forced the reader to accept that the sticks have to became wobbly in GR....
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All of them.
Now here is a minority position in today's scientific community (Although I'd agree wholeheartedly). Still, as far as our little puzzle's concerned: A specific philosophical position or statement leading to a specific experiment giving a specific result.
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