I have discussed at length the fact that you cannot read the Blog is you do not read the comments, because the commenters make points about things I DON’T know.
As in Peter’s contribution below, commenters must also make points I DO know:
“Einsteinian Universe of hugeness”
You should Google up articles debunking Einstein. Many are quite technical and some are quite scathing. Some respected mainstream physicists such as one at Princeton (I think) debunks his formulation of relativity. Others say outright that he was a self-promoting con artist and flim-flam man who produced nothing legitimate until he had millions to hire a crew of real researchers.
Comment by Peter
I am VERY familiar with those arguments, and I’ve done a bit of Einstein-debunking myself here.
But I face the writer’s dilemma: How much can I say without boring the reader cross-eyed?
As Noah Webster said, “Usage is everything.” In normal discourse, the term for the hugeness concept is Einsteinian space. But I can’t go into a detailed regression every time I have to use a term I don’t approve of. I have to use libeal and conservative all the time knowing full well that liberals are not liberal and conservatives are not conserving anything that is historically accurate.
But if I regresserd into those points every time I wrote, each entry would be at lwast pamphlet size.
Which is where the commenters come in. If you READ the comments, you will get information like that Peter is giving you, and I can go ahead and write.
#1 by Tim on 05/08/2006 - 6:31 pm
“Others say outright that he was a self-promoting con artist and flim-flam man who produced nothing legitimate until he had millions to hire a crew of real researchers.”
So basically they are saying Einstein was a Semite.
#2 by Peter on 05/08/2006 - 6:42 pm
That’s right you have. I had forgotten.