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Representations of the spacetime named for this physicist imply the existence of massless “synchrons” that instantaneously carry momentum across a distance. In the spacetime named for this physicist, the five-momentum contains a particle’s mass and energy in its final two coordinates. The Poincare group contracts (-5[1])to the group named for this physicist (15[1])in the (*) classical (10[1]-5[1])limit. (-5[1])Transformations (10[2])named for this physicist (10[1])are uniquely determined by a rotation, (10[1])a translation, (-5[1])and a uniform motion, (10[1])and Newton’s laws (10[2])are invariant (10[3])under his namesake transformations. This physicist imagined performing experiments on a moving ship (10[1])to formulate his namesake principle of relativity. For 10 points, name this Italian physicist who dropped weights from (10[1])the Leaning (10[2])Tower of Pisa (10[2])to show their time of descent was mass-independent. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Galileo Galilei [accept either name; accept Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei; accept Galilean spacetime; accept Galilean group; accept Galilean transformations]
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