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Quote: Poincare's view of geometry is correct; in a rotating system of reference, the laws of rigid bodies do not correspond to Euclidean geometry

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general relativity

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I attach special importance to the view of … [of Poincare, see p. 35], because without it I should have been unable to formulate … system of reference rotating relatively to an inert … geometry on account of the Lorentz contraction; thus …   Google-1   Google-2

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