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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1931, Page 6

SO SIMPLE! “Euclid’s geometry has a great simplicity, hut there are weak points in it, and it is the duty of modern mathematicians to fill up the gaps in Euclid's theory, which, in spite of its exceeding simplicity, is not altogether satisfactory. 1 base my theory entirely on experience of the expansion of light and of the velocity of it, the light being independent of the bodies in space and of their relative velocity and colour. The relativity principle underlies all geometry, and the theory of relativity is as simple as Euclid’s geometry. The general theory of relativity is based upon the observed fact that the attracition of a lump of matter is exactly proportional to its inertia. Instead of saying that one mass attracts another, and thus deflects it froth its path, one can ascribe to matter the property of distorting the space-time manifold. This would explain why the deflection from the Euclidian line Is the same no matter what the mass of the deflected particle or the substance of which it consists.’’—Frofessor Einstein.

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