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Quote: the distance between two points is meaningless by itself; it depends on how distance is measured

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Topic:
special relativity

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Has one the right ... to say he knows the distance between two points? No, since this distance could undergo enormous variations without our being able to perceive them, provided the other distances have varied in the same proportion.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923


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