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Did Einstein Stumble? The Debate Over General Covariance

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Reflections on Spacetime

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The objection that Einstein’s principle of general covariance is not a relativity principle and has no physical content is reviewed. The principal escapes offered for Einstein’s viewpoint are evaluated.

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    U. Majer

  2. Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Germany

    H.-J. Schmidt

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Norton, J.D. (1995). Did Einstein Stumble? The Debate Over General Covariance. In: Majer, U., Schmidt, HJ. (eds) Reflections on Spacetime. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2872-0_6

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