From: poutnik@privacy.net   
      
   Dne 23/09/2017 v 07:10 Gerry Quinn napsal(a):   
   > In article , poutnik@privacy.net says...   
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   >> It can be otherwise.   
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   >> IF Einstein used space and time the same way as Newton,   
   >> Newton would be right and Einstein wrong.   
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   >> IF Newton used space and time the same way as Einstein,   
   >> Newton would be wrong and Einstein right.   
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   >> But as both used space and time differently,   
   >> both are right within definitions and assumptions of their theories.   
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   > This is it, essentially.  There are some differences in the theories   
   > themselves, i.e. the exact predictions of gravitational effects   
   > (famously, the precession of the perihelion of Mercury is in accordance   
   > with Einstein's rather than Newton's theory) - but in principle it's   
   > possible to describe an identical theory in either a geometric or a   
   > force-based model.   
      
   I would not be so sure,   
   if force model could properly describe all GR effects,   
   like e.g. gravitational time dilation,   
   or all consequencies of space-time curvature.   
      
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