Re: Nikola Tesla about Relativity
- From: "Der alte Hexenmeister" <vanquish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:50:43 GMT
"JanPB" <filmart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Koobee Wublee wrote:
>>
>> In 1914, Einstein and Grossmann published the "Entwurf" theory of gravity
>> where the field equations were very close to the modern day form. It is
>> more like Grossmann did all the work while Eintein did all the PR stuff.
>> Hilbert being corresponding with Einstein must have known about
>> "Entwurf".
>> He also knew the field equations must encompass the Poisson equation.
>> Therefore, he must have tried all sorts of Lagrangian until one fits his
>> liking. He came up with the Lagrangian by "fudging" and not by the old
>> fashion way that is to derive it from something already well established.
>
> This doesn't seem right. It's been few years since I looked into the
> Birkhauser "Einstein and the History of General Relativity" series but
> it's all there based on research from the recently opened Einstein
> Archive (late '80s). J. Stachel, J. Norton, and many others go into
> full technical and historical detail supported by notebooks, letters,
> galley proofs of the original papers with authors' corrections (not
> only Einstein's, of course), etc. etc., tracing the development of
> every important idea of GR and who did what. It's a fascinating and
> complicated business, none of which looked to me like "fudging" some
> Lagrangian or "Grossmann did all the work while Einstein did all the PR
> stuff".
>
> It's all there, it's no secret, if you have the time and the
> inclination you can study it.
>
> --
> Jan Bielawski
Since you don't understand this stuff, why don't you refrain from
posting on this thread? What's your point?
Hexenmeister.
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