Re: The birth of General Relativity

From: eric gisse <jowr.pi.nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:34:07 -0800

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 19:33:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Potter
<tdp1001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

That irrelevant screen can be condensed into two sentences:

a) Tom Potter learned that Cauchy had something to do with tensor
analysis, which GR uses.
b) Tom Potter still has no explanation for why the GPS works.
.

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