Re: New version of a relativity FAQ

Pmb wrote on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:50:18 -0400:

"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!


Of course, but that was Tom claim today

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/7bc04080fbc8214b


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