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    Wolfgang Rindler (18 May 1924 – 8 February 2019) was a physicist working in the field of general relativity where he is known for introducing the term...
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  • Rindler coordinates are a coordinate system used in the context of special relativity to describe the hyperbolic acceleration of a uniformly accelerating...
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  • horizon is a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an observer. Wolfgang Rindler coined the term in the 1950s. In 1784, John Michell proposed that gravity...
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    authors, such as Ludwik Silberstein (1914), Frank Morley (1936) and Wolfgang Rindler (2001). The quadrature of the hyperbola xy = 1 by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent...
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    the same initial conditions everywhere. It was first pointed out by Wolfgang Rindler in 1956. The most commonly accepted solution is cosmic inflation. Different...
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    Space-Time: Volume 1, Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields (with Wolfgang Rindler, 1987) ISBN 0-521-33707-0 (paperback) Spinors and Space-Time: Volume...
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    Herglotz (1909/10) while discussing Born rigidity, and was popularized by Wolfgang Rindler in his textbook on relativity, who used it in his demonstration of...
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  • Penrose, Roger (1987). "On the Origins of Twistor Theory". In Rindler, Wolfgang; Trautman, Andrzej (eds.). Gravitation and Geometry, a Volume in Honour...
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    Metromnia, Issue 18 - Spring 2005 NPL news, Time flies, 1 Feb. 2011 Wolfgang Rindler, Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological, Springer-Verlag...
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  • Fields (with Wolfgang Rindler) (1987) Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry (with Wolfgang Rindler) (1988) Concepts...
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