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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (35 children)

Even fewer would have understood it, because no one could have even read it.

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Albert Einstein published the theory of special relativity in 1905, building on many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. --your bible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olinto_De_Pretto

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (33 children)

I agree that special relativity was more obvious.

But when I said "It would be difficult to plagiarise general relativity" I was talking about general relativity.

Or don't you know that they're different?

Special relativity was time dilation and length contraction, both of which are consequences of Maxwell's equations.

General relativity is a whole theory of gravitation explained by mass distorting spacetime, so that the geometry of the universe is a riemann manifold. This explains time dilation and length contraction, but also gravitation, predicts black holes, the big bang and gravity waves. With a minor addition (well, a whole extra dimension, but you can do that in a riemann manifold) it also unifies the forces of electricity and magnetism.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (31 children)

You speak english and read it. Good job. I guess it's not impossible.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (30 children)

What?

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Why does a man of science waste his days arguing politics on the fringes of the internet?

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (28 children)

I'd like to see more science based policy in politics.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (27 children)

Me too. Like ending climate and assault rifle alarmism.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (26 children)

You don't think greenhouse gasses cause the greenhouse effect, or that the reason that the USA has an order of magnitude higher homicides per capita than Europe is to do with all the guns?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (25 children)

I found this post super compelling concerning climate change: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/25/wheres-the-emergency/ I think you yourself have a moderate position and don't see an emergency coming. We discussed the 3 degree temperature change making farming harder on some areas of the earth and other such non-emergency challenges.