"There was a period when cosmology got started. There were some important works in the 30s—the Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman ideas equations]. ...Unified Field theories were the bane of GR in those days. Einstein... was convinced that physics should be primarily geometry... about 10 years later, maybe 15, Steven Weinberg was convinced that geometry was irrelevant... the important stuff is just field theory. ...Weinberg, later... collaborated in proving that physics really is geometry. Except not the geometry of space-time... it's the geometry of the graph paper on which the properties of space-time are conceptually plotted... the idea of a curved connection. If you want to plot... any physical quantity... like a , s, s, etc. you need to plot it on curved graph paper. But Einstein... didn't have that broad an idea of geometry..."
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, Richard A. Matzner, General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler (2010) p. 23.
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