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Talk:Counterexamples to Relativity (view source)
Revision as of 06:11, August 20, 2011
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::: I looked for a quote I recall seeing about Poincare expressing skepticism that Relativity was physically true rather than being merely a mathematical theory, but I couldn't find it (yet).--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:52, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
::: I looked for a quote I recall seeing about Poincare expressing skepticism that Relativity was physically true rather than being merely a mathematical theory, but I couldn't find it (yet).--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:52, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
:::: The important point is that relativity is compatible with Maxwell's equations while classical mechanics is not. So if you accept classical mechanics you cannot have Maxwell's equations, but with relativity you can. --[[User:MatthewQ|MatthewQ]] 02:11, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
This will be my final posting here. I apologize for its length.
This will be my final posting here. I apologize for its length.