 It wasn’t Einstein, but the mathematician Hermann Weyl who first addressed the asymmetry in 1918 in the course of reconstructing Einstein’s theory on the preferred epistemological basis of a “pure infinitesimal geometry” (Reine Infinitesimalgeometrie). Holding that direct—evident, in the sense of the Wesensschau of Husserlian phenomenoloy—comparisons of length or duration could be made at near-by points of spacetime, but not, as the Riemannian geometry of Einstein’s theory allowed, “at a distance”, Weyl discovered an expanded geometry with additional terms that, following Einstein’s example, he simply formally identified with the potentials of the electromagnetic field. From these, the electromagnetic field strengths can be immediately derived. Choosing an action integral to obtain both the homogeneous and the inhomogeneous Maxwell equations as well as Einstein’s gravitational theory, Weyl could express electromagnetism as well as gravitation solely within the confines of a spacetime geometry. As no other interactions were definitely known to occur, Weyl proudly declared that the concepts of geometry and physics were the same. Hence, everything in the physical world was a manifestation of spacetime geometry.