Graham Nerlich
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View article: Lost Opportunity: how Einstein 1916 ingored Minkowski 1908
Lost Opportunity: how Einstein 1916 ingored Minkowski 1908 Open
Einstein’s (1916) first survey of General Relativity is deeply flawed in its informal introductory section, Part A. He presents the salient feature of the new theory as the mere lifting of coordinate restrictions on Special Relativity rath…
View article: A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide
A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide Open
Even though the BA was the first degree it was not until eight years later in 1887 that the Faculty of Arts was inaugurated. In the first 50 years of the Universitys existence, less than ten BA students graduated each year. At the start o…
View article: On the sovereign independence of spacetime
On the sovereign independence of spacetime Open
Special Relativity is not a branch of electromagnetism: it does not depend on light’s having a constant, limiting speed. If the theory is true, it depends on no matter theory. Rather, very general and familiar symmetries of space and time …