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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The new metric of Einstein and the wave equation' by H T Flint

Reference number: RR/38/16

Date: October 1928

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The mathematics in the paper is true, although it doesn't physically amount to much.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 ctober 1928.

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RR/38/16
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October 1928
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2 pages
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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The new metric of Einstein and the wave equation' by H T Flint, October 1928, RR/38/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_16/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-the-new-metric-of-einstein-and-the-wave-equation-by-h-t-flint, accessed on 16 June 2025

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