“We no longer think that physical action is explainable in terms of little hard balls which are the centers of all kinds of forces. A much more abstract kind of concept is demanded in which the particle is no longer something that can be considered in isolation but rather as a part of an all-embracing entity called a ‘field’. In this development Einstein’s thought construction played a vital role.
“When Minkowski in 1908 demonstrated that Einstein’s new theory was equivalent to a geometrical approach uniting space and time in one single entity (4-D space-time), the voices for a ‘physical’ explanation of relativity fell silent, since it now became obvious that an explanation in physical terms cannot be given.”
- Cornelius Lanczos, ALBERT EINSTEIN and the COSMIC ORDER


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