From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Bill Sloman wrote:
> > On 13/02/2026 8:03 pm, Thomas Heger wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Notably, Thomas Heger is a well-known Internet/Usenet crackpot (like Dingle
> eventually became, just without the Net) whose own writing is so ripe with
> fundamental physical mistakes and misconceptions that he cannot be trusted
> to provide an informed review of Einstein's works.
>
> >> 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.
>
> Einstein submitted this paper to the "Annalen der Physik", and Max Planck
> was not the editor at the time to begin with; Paul Karl Ludwig Drude was.
So you got that wrong too.
Drude was indeed the nominal editor who carried overall responsibility.
That doesn't mean that he handled all submissions personally.
The Annalen also had a 'Kuratorium'
(somewhat like a 'board' in modern usage)
Max Planck was on it.
In particular, Planck handled the theory papers.
> >> 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.
>
> Probably fiction. It is not clear when Planck became aware of that paper.
Planck was the first to see it,
Jan
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