How Einstein arrived at his theory of general relativity
One of the commenters in the post wrote this<p>> Einstein didn't use Maxwell's original quaternion equations. He used the dumbed down vectors of Lorentz, Heaviside, Gibbs, Hertz, etc. Make no mistake—this is the reason why Relativity doesn't play well with quantum mechanics.<p>> Maxwell's original equations are scalar in nature. The reduction of these equations by Lorentz, et al. in the early 20th century removed the scalar (time) component entirely, and theoretical physics, whether it knows it or not, has been reeling ever since. [...]<p>Can anybody here explain why this is so important?