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Why are General relativity texts so much more formal?
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[QUOTE="PeterDonis, post: 6564583, member: 197831"] I think this is at least partly because in QM, state vectors are already understood to be vectors in a different space (Hilbert space) from ordinary 3-space, or ordinary 4-dimensional spacetime. Hilbert space is already abstract, so additional abstraction doesn't seem like as big a hurdle. In relativity, however, the basic thing being studied is still ordinary 4-dimensional spacetime, which seems to be concrete--it's the actual spacetime we live in, not some abstract thing. So having to accept that vectors are [I]not[/I] actually arrows in this concrete spacetime we live in is more of an issue and has to be dealt with explicitly. [/QUOTE]
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