Why relativity is infalsifiable

**Paul Stowe**

On 29 Jun 2005 18:07:03 -0700, "RichD" wrote:

Paul Stowe wrote:
The fact is, had Einstein delayed publication of his GR paper by just
a month, Hilbert would have been first to publish.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~.../Einstein.html

Minus the field equations.

"The final steps to the theory of general relativity were taken
by Einstein and Hilbert at almost the same time. BOTH had
recognised flaws in Einstein's October 1914 work and a
correspondence between the two men took place in November 1915.
How much they learnt from each other is hard to measure but the
FACT that they both discovered the same final form of the
gravitational FIELD EQUATIONS within days of each other must
indicate that their exchange of ideas was helpful. {...}
Five days before Einstein submitted his 25 November paper
Hilbert had submitted a paper The foundations of physics which
also contained the CORRECT FIELD EQUATIONS for gravitation.
Hilbert's paper contains some important contributions to
relativity not found in Einstein's work. "

See:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~...elativity.html

"Many have claimed that in 1915 Hilbert discovered the correct field
equations for general relativity before Einstein... The article [11]
however, shows that this view is in error. In this paper the authors
show convincingly that Hilbert submitted his article on 20 November
1915... the proofs of Hilbert's paper (dated 6 December 1915) do not
contain the field equations."

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~...s/Hilbert.html

What is ref [11]? It not found on that link.

Paul Stowe

**Paul Stowe**

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:04:38 GMT, Paul Stowe
wrote:

On 29 Jun 2005 18:07:03 -0700, "RichD" wrote:

Paul Stowe wrote:
The fact is, had Einstein delayed publication of his GR paper by just
a month, Hilbert would have been first to publish.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~.../Einstein.html

Minus the field equations.

"The final steps to the theory of general relativity were taken
by Einstein and Hilbert at almost the same time. BOTH had
recognised flaws in Einstein's October 1914 work and a
correspondence between the two men took place in November 1915.
How much they learnt from each other is hard to measure but the
FACT that they both discovered the same final form of the
gravitational FIELD EQUATIONS within days of each other must
indicate that their exchange of ideas was helpful. {...}
Five days before Einstein submitted his 25 November paper
Hilbert had submitted a paper The foundations of physics which
also contained the CORRECT FIELD EQUATIONS for gravitation.
Hilbert's paper contains some important contributions to
relativity not found in Einstein's work. "

See:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~...elativity.html

"Many have claimed that in 1915 Hilbert discovered the correct field
equations for general relativity before Einstein... The article [11]
however, shows that this view is in error. In this paper the authors
show convincingly that Hilbert submitted his article on 20 November
1915... the proofs of Hilbert's paper (dated 6 December 1915) do not
contain the field equations."

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~...s/Hilbert.html

What is ref [11]? It not found on that link.

Found it... http://www.tau.ac.il/~corry/texts/articles/science.pdf

My original point(s) remains

Paul Stowe

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