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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Misner et al.
- Message-ID: <87454@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 13:51:51 GMT
- References: <mcirvin.715055017@husc8> <1992Aug31.040423.15975@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- In-reply-to: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr))
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- In article <1992Aug31.040423.15975@nuscc.nus.sg>, matmcinn@nuscc (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:
- > By the way, Weinberg's book is notorious for the claim
- >that you don't really need geometry to understand GR. But somebody once
- >told me that Weinberg retracted this bizarre claim. Can anyone verify?
-
- I don't know about the latter, but his claim should be understood in
- context. He was thinking in the long run regarding grand unification,
- and he took the apparent incompatibility of geometry with field theory
- as grounds for pushing a field theoretic reading of GR. How was he to
- know back then that geometry was going to be so important for HEP?
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-