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It Is Ironic That Einsteins Most Creative Work, The General Theory Of Relativity, Should Boil Down To Conceptualizing Space As A Medium When His Original Premise [in Special Relativity] Was That No Such Medium Existed[..].
-Robert B. Laughlin
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It Is Ironic That Einsteins Most Creative

Robert B. Laughlin
It Is Ironic That Einsteins Most Creative Work, The General Theory Of Relativity, Should Boil Down To Conceptualizing Space As A Medium When His Original Premise [in Special Relativity] Was That No Such Medium Existed[..].
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