Re: Einstein swinging from a rope

Mark wrote:

The lack of respect for the man who took Maxwell's equations a step further
is frightening.

I suspect this sort of thing has always existed in some form but it
wasn't as obvious before the Internet. Some people need this fiction
called "I am a genius physicist" because they cannot live with
themselves as they are. To maintain this fiction they'll go to
extraordinary lengths and mere contradictions and violations of common
sense and elementary honesty (they cannot answer simplest physics
questions if you ask them) are never good enough to stop them - it's
almost like the self-preservation instinct at work here.

Relativity is unfortunately uniquely suitable for such abuse beacuse it
is based on fundamental notions of time and space that everybody feels
to be an expert in, and its simplest aspects can be derived with little
more than high school algebra. Notice how the *second* part of
Einstein's paper is never debated by those types.

--
Jan Bielawski

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