Word: minkowski
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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First to make any strong assault was Germany's Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), who stated that Time is a dimension. Following him came Germany's Albert Einstein with his relativity laws. England's Arthur Stanley Eddington in The Nature of the Physical World told man that his reckoning of Time was misleading ; that the age of man could not be accurately determined by the time given by the Astronomer Royal. Two individuals, he said, one firmly rooted to the earth, the other skipping from planet to planet, would not age at the same rate. While the static...