Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 12:54:03 09/23/02
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On September 23, 2002 at 13:03:25, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >Thank god, I haven't confused everything (as usual). It's some time ago that I >'d been involved in physics. However, I'm still dreaming of studying General >Relativity "some day" (perhaps after throwing the towel regarding Comet). Now that is something _really_ challenging because, never mind the conceptual difficulties, even the mathematics is hard. Tensor algebra is one of those areas of mathematics you're not taught unless you have to know it, and Einstein was largely developing it as he went along although some of the results were already known. Mind you, Heisenberg was in a similar situation about 10 years later; he formulated quantum mechanics in terms of 'things' and, when he asked a mathematician to look over what he had done, it turned out that those 'things' were matrices :) >Interesting. >Are you working as a physicist or is it just a spare time interest of yours ? No - I completed my theoretical physics degree 13 years ago and now work, rather prosaically, in the IT industry - but this sort of thing sticks. (And I keep up with what's going on). Alastair
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