It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Dec 20
th, 2010 at 11:36pm:
How can you pedistal a guy like Einstein who only used 10% of his brain capacity, which was entirely just Maths, to be the 'right direction' to follow. If anything, most of his Theories (not answers) were stolen from when he worked in a Patent Office and lets face it - it takes a smart person to make a job of all that.
I think Art would be more of an 'answer' to the problem, than anything Mathematical, let alone Scientific.
I guess its all about understanding 'this' world and how the 'combinations' work.
One better connection is that Art and Astronomy are 'visual' things.
...so if we can project an image of light into a lounge-room,
then I'm sure we can project an image of light 4.2 light years away.
Now I wonder ...would that beam of light be strong enough to carry something substantial?
sorry, I'm drifting away with the fairies, even if they do have 'wings'.
Yes you are
Those claims that he stole the ideas have been shown to be false according to studies by the Max Planck Institute of Berlin.
There were a number of researchers working on relativity at the time. They all compared notes, and cited one another as researchers do today.
Here is a reasonably good summary of the various accusations:
http://www.2ubh.com/features/Einstein.htmlThe summary:
Quote:here's also a thriving set of more or less cranky claims that Einstein was, at best, misguided; and, at worst, a deliberate fraud. So why is Einstein such an attractive target? Stachel has identified three general reasons.
The first is anti-semitism. Many of Einstein's early critics in Germany were allied with the then-dominant Nazi party, including Nobel prize winner Johannes Stark. Some modern anti-Einstein theorists continue to quote these early critics without mentioning their political interest in promoting more "Aryan" physicists over the Jewish liberal Einstein.
In recent decades, some feminist critics have picked on Einstein in an attempt to show women are under-represented in the history of science. "On the human aspect there's much criticism to be made of Einstein's attitude to a number of women in his life, and Mileva Maric in particular, but that doesn't mean the ideas came from her or she was a great scientist," Stachel says.
Finally, there's simple iconoclasm. The physics community, in promoting Einstein as a kind of secular saint, has to take some of the blame. "Too much of an idol was made of Einstein," Stachel says. "He's not an idol – he's a human, and that's much more interesting."
Forum
Pages: 
Voyager spacecraft nears exit of solar system (Read 15558 times)
