Happy 100th Birthday - Spacetime
Relativity still seems so new and fresh but the basic foundations are getting to be 100 years old.
From
Lubo� Motl:
Hermann Minkowski: 100 years of spacetime
Exactly 100 years ago, on September 21st, 1908, Hermann Minkowski gave a talk titled "Raum und Zeit" ("Space and Time"; book version) in Cologne, Germany in which he proposed a natural interpretation of Einstein's special theory of relativity in terms of a geometry with an indefinite signature.
Better not do that Captain, it might destroy the space-time continuoum...
Posted by DaveH at September 21, 2008 7:49 PM