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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 to the group named for this physicist in the (*) classical limit. Transformations named for this physicist (10[1])are uniquely determined by a rotation, a translation, and a uniform motion, and Newton’s laws are invariant 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 the Leaning Tower of Pisa (10[1])to show their time of descent was mass-independent. ■END■

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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