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  • About dulrich
    Biography
    Fell in love with relativity as a teenager and have never looked back. Love the uncomprimising rigor required plus its immense practical utility. But as Feynman said, "Physics is like sex. It has practical benefits, but that's not why we do it."
    Country
    USA
    Interests
    Physics (obviously), philosophy, history. A good game of tennis.
    Educational Background
    Graduate/Masters
    Degree in
    Physics. Minor in math
    Favorite Area of Science
    Enjoy every area of physics, lately thinking about wave mechanics. Would like to know more QFT.
    Profession
    During the day: financial analyst. Teach an intro to physics class at night at the local community college.

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Posted May16-10 at 02:11 AM by dulrich Comments 2
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A Personal Note

I completed my Master’s degree in Physics back in May of 1999. I’ve been somewhat obsessed with learning and understanding relativity since I was a teenager and this represented a culmination of that effort. I recently ran across my old thesis which was entitled “Comparison and Analysis of Various Attempts to Develop a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation”. The abstract summarizes the thesis of the paper:

Although general relativity makes many predictions
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