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    History Biographies, History, Philosophy of Physics

    https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/11/100-authors-against-einstein-a-look-in-the-rearview-mirror/
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    History Biographies, History, Philosophy of Physics

    Possibly interesting reading: https://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Authors-Against-Einstein/dp/B09PHH7KC8?tag=pfamazon01-20
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    History Biographies, History, Philosophy of Physics

    This could be a useful assignment to identify where Dingle went wrong.
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    Since Megadeth is on its farewell tour, this recent interview might be of interest in this thread... https://loudwire.com/dave-mustaine-influenced-every-big-4-thrash-band/ ENTREVISTA - DAVE MUSTAINE (MEGADETH) ( &t=5m50s talks about the Big 4 and Big 8 of Thrash Metal ) and here is my...
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    High School Looking for an English translation of Levi-Civita's 1926 paper "Sur l'écart géodésique" ("On the geodesic deviation")

    That is the full prompt to GeminiPro that preceded the output I presented (as low-res captures). That prompt came after a sequence of prompts: The first attempt was "Translate to English, together with typeset equations, into a pdf." which was good... but only produced 4 pages, but did not...
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    High School Looking for an English translation of Levi-Civita's 1926 paper "Sur l'écart géodésique" ("On the geodesic deviation")

    I subscribe to Gemini Pro. What I had posted in my reply is what I had tried, Here are low-resolution images of some of the output.
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    High School Looking for an English translation of Levi-Civita's 1926 paper "Sur l'écart géodésique" ("On the geodesic deviation")

    Try google gemini.... with "Translate to English, together with typeset equations, into a pdf." but you'll probably have to break up the document into chunks.... e.g., i want a line by line translation of the introduction and section 1 , including typeset equations, maintaining the rough page...
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    Undergrad Special Relativity in a closed universe

    Here's an ancient thread with more references https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-twin-paradox-revisited-a-local-case-study.51197/
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    Undergrad Special Relativity in a closed universe

    The underlying manifold of special relativity is ##R^4##. Flatness is not enough.
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    Talent Worthy of Wider Recognition

    Voice of Baceprot (V.O.B.) (2026) This Indonesian Metal Band Is Changing Everything Loud Society and Voice of Baceprot - more V.O.B on PF
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    Danish Scientists

    I didn’t catch that myself until I read her Wikipedia page. My subset comment was about the links to the two Wikipedia pages I posted.
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    History Biographies, History, Philosophy of Physics

    Some history behind the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. (I visited PI when it was just the brownstone on King and Dupont (Google Maps) [in the video at &t=2m21s] to visit my advisor who was spending a sabbatical there. I've never been to the current site (Google...
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    Danish Scientists

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Danish_women_scientists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Danish_scientists Although these probably need some editing.... because currently ##\nsubseteq##
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    RIP Carl H Brans (1935 - 2026), general relativity

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_H._Brans https://cas.loyno.edu/news/mar-04-2026_carl-henry-brans-longtime-member-department-physics-passed-away-february-26-2026 Carl Henry Brans, longtime member of the Department of Physics, passed away on February 26, 2026, at the age of 90 loynocas -...
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    Interval Kinematics

    Instead of initial and final, it might be better to use event-labels: at event A, at time ##t_A##, the position is ##x_A##, and the velocity is ##v_A##, and the acceleration is ##a_A##. Encourage good bookkeeping, especially for multi-stage processes, like your posed problem.