Re: Mileva Maric Einstein

From: Harry (harald.vanlintel_at_epfl.ch)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:18:11 +0200

"Bill Hobba" <bhobba@rubbish.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Harry" <harald.vanlintel@epfl.ch> wrote in message
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> > "Bill Hobba" <bhobba@rubbish.net.au> wrote in message
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> > > "Australopithecus Afarensis" <fossil.lucy@cox.net> wrote in message
> > > news:thJLc.12059$Fj6.7888@lakeread07...
> > SNIP
> >
> > > Did Poincare at the 1911 Solvay conference show no
> > > understanding of relativity, the theory that Einstein supposedly stole
> > from
> > > him - Yes.
> >
> > Wow! I never heard that rumour - and I doubt it because I know from his
> > writings that he understood it better than Lorentz. Do you have a
> reference?
> >
>
> It is no rumor - see page 170 - Pais - Subtle is the Lord. Einstein meet
> Poincare for the first time at the Solvay conference of 1911 and is it
> reported that Poincare showed little of no understanding of relativity.
>
> BTW Harry I highly recommend the above source for the true facts about
> Einstein. It is not just the authors view - the extensive bibliography it
> is based on is amazing.
>
> Thanks
> Bill

I don't have the book, so please give me the reference it provides so I can
look it up - if it has such a reference!
"it is reported" is definitely a rumour - except if you can specify who
reported it and on what basis, so we can judge for ourselves how likely it
is to be correct. However, for your information, I reported in my above
message to you that he obviously understood it quite well, and I even
reported how I know it and I can not only give you the references but even
send some of them to you.

Bill, I highly recommend you to stop spreading rumours and stick to the
original sources.
Such books as you refer to are mainly useful for the included sources - and
only by reading these sources.

Best regards,

Harald

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