Re: How did Einstein get published?


"Randy Poe" <poespam-trap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm really thinking about Androcles as I write this,
but I invite all of the anti-Einsteinians to contribute.
(You know you will anyway. You're here because
you couldn't resist the title.)

Androcles in particular believes that Einstein's 1905
SR paper is full of nonsensical statements and
elementary errors that any child should catch. Yet
we have the indisputable fact that the version of the
paper we know was accepted and published in
Annalen der Physik, one of the premier physics
journals of the day.

So I invite you to imagine what the editorial process
was. How did a paper with such obvious errors end
up being blessed by the editors and referees and
published in a research journal?

I freely admit that my hope is to see a whole bunch
of wacky statements in one place. Hopefully both
sides will get plenty of amusement from the exchange.

- Randy


Well, it may have been a good physics journal at the turn of the 20th
century, but look at it now... in the 1970's they began putting ads in the
back for ventriloquism lessons, and secret decoder rings. Open it up now,
and you will be greeted with pornographic pictures, ads from gay physicists
looking for a 'big bang', shlockey stories about how legalizing drugs will
answer all the world's problems, and articles on string theory....

Well, you *did* admit you wanted to read some "wacky statements in one
place" didn't you? Well, OK then.


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