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Published on: VG

June 10, 1854

Georg Bernhard Riemann, in his historic speech at the University of Göttingen, demonstrates that forces can be seen as a consequence of geometry. The laws of physics appear simpler when expressed in higher-dimensional spaces. He concludes that electricity, magnetism, and gravity are caused by the compaction of a higher-dimensional geometry into three dimensions. He then introduces the concept of tensor and even wormholes (Riemann’s cut).