"As Daniel Dennefink explains in his article on the story behind the writings of the Einstein-Rosen gravitational paper, the singularity that Einstein and Rosen had encountered was an apparent singularity introduced by their choice of coordinate system, similar to the singularity one encounters when attempting to find the longitude of the North Pole. In fact, in his referee report Robertson had indicated that the singularity was removed by a change to a cylindrical coordinate system."
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, Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius (2008) p. 10. Referencing: Daniel Dennefink, "Einstein versus the Physical Review." 2005 Physics Today 58(9): pp. 43-46 & "On Gravitational Waves," Journal of the Franklin Institute (1937) 223, pp. 43-54.
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Howard P. Robertson
Howard Percy Robertson (January 27, 1903 – August 26, 1961) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton University.
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