To: Phileleutherus Franciscus
He wrote a treatise on the arbitrary nature of assumed coordinate systems; is that what you’re recalling?
426 posted on
07/16/2009 6:59:13 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: editor-surveyor
He wrote a treatise on the arbitrary nature of assumed coordinate systems; is that what youre recalling?
I think I see the error. You are confusing his explanation of why non-Euclidean geometry was necessary for general relativity to an argument that "all coordinate systems are equivalent".
If that's the case: reading comprehension fail.
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