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  • noun German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909)

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  • My professor last semester worked on space probes that had to deal with the effects of special and general relativity and we had to do calculations with vectors in minkowski 4-space.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • I don’t think anyone suggests that a general FRW universe can be globally represented as motion through a minkowski metric - which is obvious as the underlying geometries are not the same.

    Does Space Expand? Sean 2008

  • Isn’t it possible to formulate a “relativistic” theory of gravitation on minkowski space-time gravity is attractive, so you would have to consider a spin-0 or spin2 bosonic field or a combination of both. spin-0 alone does not reproduce some effects we know and spin-2 leads more or less straight back to GR due to consistency arguments.

    Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss Mark 2005

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