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to understand what i said,you need to look at the first chapter,last paragraph. He talks about faliure of geometrical proposition in general principle of relativity. And what is that these axioms were seen as limits.. He went beyond and said that we can legitimately use any point in curved space to formulate general laws of nature even though it went even beyond the limits of law of nature. This is the connection between what wannabeNewton said and what i said.
 
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This thread has turned into the blind leading the blind. Phinds has answered the question correctly, so there is no need to go off on another tangent. No pun intended.
 

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