WikiPeterD

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Ralph Klein

Are you sure that Ralph Klein is a "she"? The name sounds male--MiguelMadeira (talk) 11:36, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Good catch. I confused Ralph with Melanie Klein. WikiPeterD (talk) 01:09, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Edits to Relative Velocity

Are you certain about your edits to Relative_velocity#Special_Relativity? I think the formulas are wrong. More precisely, the formulas were not properly translated into the notation of the paper. By the way, thanks for including the reference to Fock (1964). It's a valuable on-line resource that I didn't know about.--guyvan52 (talk) 13:27, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

I struck out the first two sentences of the previous post because the equations seem right, after all. I deleted your insertion of ideas pertaining to Special Relativity for reasons I outlined on the talk page. I also have been guilty of being so enthusiastic about my edits that I inserted too much material pointing to my contributions.

One more thing: I presume you got your equations from Fock (1964). If you could give me the page numbers I would

insert them into the article. With complicated equations tiny errors are always possible, and the page numbers in the references help minimize that problem. And now, after initially believing that your contribution was well-intentioned but harmful, and then carefully reevaluating that assessment, I can with all sincerity say: Good edit!.--guyvan52 (talk) 23:53, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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