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Originally Posted by cwes99_03
While benficial in most cases to have this type of understanding, if you aren't doing some deep study of a physical phenomena, but just want to understand the philosophical ideas behind a theory like Relativity you probably wouldn't need to know whether something was a tensor or not, right?
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You can probably get the key points out of a theory like relativity without needing to understand the concepts behind tensors.
However, to really understand and a get some motivation on the idea of 4-vectors and Minkowski space-time a decent grasp of tensors would be helpful. I'd recommend studying the physics you want to study, and when you get caught up, pick up some of the math.
-Will
