Re: "Is General Relativity Compatible With Special Relativity?"
- From: "JanPB" <filmart@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Aug 2005 09:31:29 -0700
Levart wrote:
> "Is General Relativity Compatible With Special Relativity?"
>
> When the writer first started to investigate General
> Relativity about four decades ago,
[...]
> http://einsteinhoax.com/hoax/htm
[snip]
> To make up for the lack of a length transformation, General
> Relativity assume that space is distorted in proportion to the time dilation
> and
> also provides a space dilation of (1-#). This incorporates the idea that
> space
> is "curved" into a fourth spatial direction in the presence of a
> gravitational field.
You make some weighty claims here so I hope you don't mind if I quickly
check your credentials? An easy question: imagine the graph of the
complex exponential function exp(z). It is a two-dimensional surface.
What is its curvature?
--
Jan Bielawski
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