Re: New version of a relativity FAQ


"Juan R. González-Álvarez" <juanREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Tom Roberts wrote on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:18:52 +0200:

I don't have "geometrical views on gravitation", I have geometrical
views on GENERAL RELATIVITY.

My quote was precise. It is applicable each time you state that spacetime
is curved [unproven], that curvature was measured [untrue], that there is
no force of gravity [unreal], when you lie novices about the geometry on
fiber bundle formulation of quantum fields...

Because that theory is, in essence,
geometrical, regardless of whether or not there are other
interpretations of it.

Nope. Even Einstein himself disagreed with that kind of thinking!

Pete


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