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  <dc:title>Letter from J H [John Henry] Poynting, 10 Ampton Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, to [Joseph] Larmor</dc:title>
  <dc:description>He is glad to contribute to recognition of Niven's services to science with a cheque for £2.2s.0d. Some time ago he wrote to Larmor about Relativity and thought he ought to read what [Albert] Einstein had to say in his first paper in the Annalen. As Larmor said, 'it is a giant superstructure on a possible interpretation of a single experiment'. There is one difficulty that Poynting cannot get over, relating the case of two synchronised clocks in relative motion telling different times after a journey's end. He discusses this, concluding that he can follow Einstein, but in taking a step on his own, he does not know where he be. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>18 November 1911</dc:date>
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