XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 14/02/2026 9:17 pm, Thomas Heger wrote:   
   > Am Freitag000013, 13.02.2026 um 18:41 schrieb Bill Sloman:   
   >> On 13/02/2026 8:03 pm, Thomas Heger wrote:   
   >>> Am Donnerstag000012, 12.02.2026 um 10:39 schrieb Martin Brown:   
   >>> ...   
   >>>>>>> I've been to physics meetings that shocked me with their brutality.   
   >>>>>>> That mentality is terrible for brainstorming and inventing things.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> They are professionals amongst themselves. They can take it.   
   >>>>>> Brutality is what keeps the brainstorming in check,   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> For sure.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Physicists have heard all of the deranged objections to Einsteins   
   >>>> theory of relativity and general relativity so many times before   
   >>>> that they are not inclined to give any quarter to hand waving   
   >>>> wannabes like you.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Most of these objections came actually from physicists.   
   >>>   
   >>> E.g. there was a physics professor with some reputation named Herbert   
   >>> Dingle, who wrote 'Science at the crossroads'.   
   >>>   
   >>> I personally have analyzed Einstein's 'On the electrodynamics of   
   >>> moving bodies' of 1905 and found, that it contains roughly four-   
   >>> hundred errors.   
   >>>   
   >>> That particular article violated all known rules for scientific   
   >>> papers and contains about 100 serious(!) errors in all possible   
   >>> circumstances.   
   >>   
   >> Max Planck didn't bother to send it out for peer-review.   
   >   
   > Sure. But I have not fully understood this fact, because Planck was   
   > definitely able to see the errors in that paper.   
      
   He saw things in it that he disliked, but if you want to claim there   
   were errors in it, you need to spell them out or a least cite a   
   reference that does that explicitly.   
      
   > This would lead to assume some sort of 'social engineering', which   
   > forced Planck accept, what he disliked.   
      
   I don't think he disliked the paper at all, but it took him a long time   
   to take quantisation seriously - he saw it more as a mathematical trick   
   that had let him get around the "ultraviolet catastrophe".   
      
   > We can actually see this in many photo's of Einstein, when he   
   > participated any conference or meeting:   
   >   
   > Einstein sat in most cases right in the center and in the first line.   
   >   
   > e.g. this one:   
   > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Solv   
   y_conference_1927.jpg/1280px-Solvay_conference_1927.jpg   
   >   
   > This position is, subconsciously, perceived as 'importance'.   
   >   
   > But Einstein wasn't a good physicist at all.   
      
   Not a widely shared opinion.   
      
   > So, what forces allowed Einstein to smuggle himself in the best place on   
   > many pictures?   
      
   The admiration  of his colleagues.   
      
   > It must be kind of hidden power, which Einstein had, that had nothing at   
   > all to do with physics.   
      
   There was nothing "hidden" about Einstein's power. He wrote four   
   ground-breaking papers in 1905, and went on to discover general   
   relativity a few years later. After the total eclipse observations in   
   1919 conformed to his theory the newspapers took it up   
      
   "On 7 November 1919, for example, the leading British newspaper, The   
   Times, printed a" banner headline that read: "Revolution in Science –   
   New Theory of the Universe – Newtonian Ideas Overthrown".   
      
   >>> IOW: this particular article is total crap.   
   >>   
   >> Except that it isn't. It didn't get cleaned up by careful peer-review   
   >> because it was already quite impressive enough to get Max Planck's   
   >> attention as it stood.   
   >   
   > Sure, but 'peer reviewed crap'.   
      
   You seem to one of the small population of nut-cases who try to get   
   noticed by publishing "Einstein was wrong" stories. It gets you noticed,   
   because he wasn't. You post crap because you want to get noticed.   
   Einstein didn't publish crap, and got noticed by people who admired what   
   he had done.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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