Paul Painlevé 1863-1933
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French Prime Minister 1917 and 1925.
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Mathematician.
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Noting that the space was flat at constant free-fall time,
Painlevé concluded that,
as regards the redshift of light from the Sun and suchlike,
c'est pure imagination de prétendre
tirer du \(d s^2\) des conséquences de cette nature.
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Einstein wrote to Painlevé
only conclusions reached after the elimination of coordinates
may pretend to an objective significance ...
the metrical interpretation of the quantity \(d s^2\)
is not pure imagination but the deep core of the theory itself.
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Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images 28 May 1921
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