Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> Carol, you might find this interesting.
>
> <[arxiv.org]
> .pdf>
> In 1936 Leopold Infeld arrived in Princeton to
> replace Rosen as Einstein's new assistant. In his
>
> autobiography Infeld describes his first meeting
> with Einstein, at which Einstein explained to him
> his proof of the non-existence of gravity waves.
>
> Regards,
> Jacob

Gravity waves or gravitational waves? Let's get our terminology correct here, folks. Are we supposed to take seriously something an author can't even get right?

But SO WHAT? Einstein thought gravitational waves would never be discovered because they were so small we'd never be able to measure them--not that they didn't exist. And it doesn't matter anyway. General relativity predicts them. Period.