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by mr_mitm 820 days ago
This quote is about special relativity.
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BenoitP 820 days ago
Which is the source for General Relativity, which suffered too from an attribution dispute with Hilbert's works.

My point being: science doesn't happen in a vacuum, and is not totally ordered

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mr_mitm 820 days ago
>science doesn't happen in a vacuum

Yes, everybody agrees, but you specifically responded to the statement that Poincaré and Lorentz had nothing to do with GR. You said that statement was wrong, but it looks more like you confused SR and GR, which are two entirely different beasts.

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BenoitP 820 days ago
Well the comment by pnin made it about GR, when the parent by boringuser2 was about the general contributions to relativity, both SR and GR. I believe "general theory of relativity" to be different than "general relativity" here, the former encompassing both SR and GR. Maybe that's where our misunderstanding comes from. Also, if you believe that GR has absolutely nothing to do with SR, then no Lorentz has no relevance to the genesis of General Relativity.

Anyway I don't believe we're having a discussion worth having here.

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