Talk:Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity

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A lot of this article appears to be gibberish, specifically the additions of Revision 07:56, 2004 Feb 19. For example, the Tolver Preston bit is decidedly kooky. I am not a historian of physics, tho, so I'll leave it untouched. Just voicing my concern.

Xerxes 23:37, 2004 Mar 16 (UTC)


 * Basically those contributions from that anon editor were anti-Einstein stuff probably taken from a single website about Einstein being a plagiarist. The contributions listed in the timeline may in fact have merit, but as stated, they are probably far too generalized and simplified to be accurate. The person who added them to the timeline didn't bother to create a single biography article or describe any of the particular achievements in the links they created. Certainly there overlooked accomplishments in physics, but it is very easy for disgruntled people (with whatever particular agenda who are usually not physicists) to say "so and so invented this, really" when in fact they may have come close or suggested it, without really elaborating  a coherent theory, or any other reasons. I'm not interested in researching this, as I'm a physicist, and not a science historian, but without more nuanced descriptions, these things do not belong on the timeline in my opinion, and are misleading. -- Decumanus 01:08, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hello all, I have an idea about this and other timelines. I'm a big fan of source documents -- how about if we figure out a way to put in references, and, ideally, links to the original research papers. Would it be too cluttering to put in references and links in the main part of the timeline? Or can we put hashmark-links into the timeline and then have a separate refs and external links section? I'll noodle on it some more and try to come up with some examples. Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 17:26, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Speed of gravity
Leading experts on general relativity like Clifford Martin Will and Steve Carlip say that Formalont and Kopeikin misinterpreted the results of their measurements. See speed of gravity. Therefore I deleted the Formalont/Kopeikin passage. --D.H 08:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)