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Is it true than general relativity can be deduced from a maximum mass density for matter?
 
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Garrulo said:
Is it true than general relativity can be deduced from a maximum mass density for matter?
No!
 
Garrulo said:
Is it true than general relativity can be deduced from a maximum mass density for matter?

What makes you think it can be? Did you read about this somewhere?
 
PeterDonis said:
What makes you think it can be? Did you read about this somewhere?
I can imagine it was a crackpot's fault. It makes a nice crackpot argument to say Einstein used maximum principles in getting special and general theories of relativity.
 
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