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Re: [Phys-l] Modern Physics



John Denker wrote:
Next year is the 100th anniversary of Minkowski's epochal work,
"Raum und Zeit". If you're going to teach "modern physics" in
2008, there can hardly be anything more appropriate than to
teach relativity the ways the pros do it ... *not* the way the
gen-ed textbooks do it.

Celebrating a disaster? :-)

“A disaster of the first magnitude (from the point of view of the understanding, as distinct from the extension, of the theory) occurred in 1908, when Minkowski transferred the subject from the realm of physics into that of mathematics.”
Herbert Dingle