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That book looks cool. Thanks! PAllen, thanks, that looks interesting. bcrowell, yes, I'm mostly interested in the "prehistory". Probably in "history" too: the fall of idea of the static universe, Friedman solutions, Kaluza-Klein ideas about unification of gravity with electromagnetism via 5d...

Thank you for your reply. Yep, it was Minkowski. Poincare noticed that Lorentz transformations preserve t2 - x[SU1P]2[/SUP] - y2 - z2. And Minkowski discovered geometrical meaning of Lorentz transformations -- they are transformations that preserve a pseudoeuclidean metric in 4-dimensional...

Hello! Could you, please, name some(if any exists) good reviews about building the general relativity? In all details: with attempts of building the vector theory of gravitation by Poincare; with long Einstein's efforts of building the scalar version; with prediction some of the effects, like...

The elementary particles can be classified according to space-time isometry group representations. In case of the Minkovsky space-time it's the Poincare group: translations and Lorentz transformations. This translations can be thought of as transitions to another reference systems. If a particle...