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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. (-5[1])Transformations named for this physicist are uniquely determined by a rotation, (10[1])a translation, and a uniform motion, and Newton’s laws (10[1])are invariant under his namesake transformations. This physicist imagined performing experiments on a moving ship to formulate his namesake principle of relativity. For 10 points, name this Italian physicist who dropped weights from the Leaning (10[2])Tower of Pisa to show their time of descent was mass-independent. ■END■ (10[1])

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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Jananan ArulseelanThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit55-5
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up6610
Colin VeeversCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countrySimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut7510
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha11010
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere11010
Liam KusalikYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange12210

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