Re: Curing Einstein's Disease (is Copyrighted)
- From: NoEinstein <noeinstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:09:50 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 23, 6:31 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
NoEinstein wrote:
'Einstein'sdisease', presently, is an incurable and often fatal
malady. It first surfaced in Germany in the early 1900s when Albert
Einstein, a man of low IQ, began having delusions that he possessed
scientific aptitude greater than that of the ordinary man.
<laughing>
Little background for NoEinstein
Dear Sam: You are in the middle, and most crucial phase, of
Einstein's disease. Characteristically, you are wowed by books on
Einstein, but without a critical eye, nor the objectivity to realize
that his house-of-cards has finally been toppled.
Where is it written that the "quantity" of published works on a
subject is the measure of the subject's truths? I say: "The more
often something must be explained, the less likely it is that the
explanations being given are correct."
For some reason, you are snowed by Einstein's child-like statements of
"relativity" truths, like: "If I move toward you at 8 ft./sec, and you
are standing still, the closing speed is the same as if you move
toward me at 8 ft./sec. and I am standing still." How brilliant!
(sic) Electromagnetic induction is the same level of "advanced
thinking".
But you should know that objective standards show that Einstein's
Special Relativity equation was plagiarized from Coriolis, and from
Lorentz-FitzGerald--both of whose equations I have conclusively
disproved. Your "high" intellect titers on being able to copy and
paste the words of others, or to provide links. But my posts and
replies are my own analysis and clear explanations.
Your desire is to drown-out my truths with the shear volume of
verbiage on Einstein, whom I have made obsolete as a "predictor" of
anything. Please get it through your thick skull: Truths aren't
determined by popular vote, nor by the weight of paper wasted on
Einstein's ideas about anything.
Like patriot Thomas Payne said: "Right is right, even if everyone is
against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is in favor of it!"
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you! -- NoEinstein --
Poincaré &Einstein
Ref: "EINSTEIN1905", John S. Rigden, Harvard University Press (2005)
In his 1902 book "La Science et l'Hypothèse", the
mathematical physicist Henri Poincaré identified three
fundamental yet unresolved problems [in physics].
One problem concerned the mysterious way ultraviolet
light ejects electrons from the surface of a metal;
the second problem was the zig-zagging perpetual motion
of pollen particles suspended in a liquid;
the third problem was the failure of experiments to
detect Earth's motion through the aether.
In 1904,Einsteinread Poincaré's book. He had also been
thinking about these problems, independently of Poincaré.
ForEinstein, they were clearly part of God's thoughts.
One year later, in 1905, he solved all three.
_______________________
Ref:http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/1/2/1
Adapted from "Five papers that shook the world"
by Matthew Chalmers
January 2005
Most physicists would be happy to make one discovery that
is important enough to be taught to future generations of
physics students. Only a very small number manage this in
their lifetime, and even fewer make two appearances in
the textbooks.
ButEinsteinwas different. In little more than eight
months in 1905 he completed five papers that would change
the world for ever. Spanning three quite distinct topics
- relativity, the photoelectric effect and Brownian
motion -Einsteinoverturned our view of space and time,
showed that it is insufficient to describe light purely
as a wave, and laid the foundations for the discovery of
atoms.
Genius at work
Perhaps even more remarkably,Einstein's1905 papers were
based neither on hard experimental evidence nor
sophisticated mathematics. Instead, he presented elegant
arguments and conclusions based on physical intuition.
"Einstein'swork stands out not because it was difficult
but because nobody at that time had been thinking the way
he did," says Gerard 't Hooft of the University of
Utrecht, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics for
his work in quantum theory.
"Dirac, Fermi, Feynman and others also made multiple
contributions to physics, butEinsteinmade the world
realize, for the first time, that pure thought can change
our understanding of nature."
And just in case the enormity ofEinstein'sachievement
is in any doubt, we have to remember that he did all of
this in his "spare time".
Statistical revelations
In 1905Einsteinwas married with a one-year-old son and
working as a patent examiner in Bern in Switzerland. His
passion was physics, but he had been unable to find an
academic position after graduating from the ETH in Zurich
in 1900.
Nevertheless, he had managed to publish five papers in
the leading German journal Annalen der Physik between
1900 and 1904, and had also submitted an unsolicited
thesis on molecular forces to the University of Zurich,
which was rejected.
Most of these early papers were concerned with the
reality of atoms and molecules, something that was far
from certain at the time. But on 17 March in 1905 - three
days after his 26th birthday -Einsteinsubmitted a paper
titled "A heuristic point of view concerning the
production and transformation of light" to Annalen der
Physik.
Einsteinsuggested that, from a thermodynamic
perspective, light can be described as if it consists of
independent quanta of energy (Ann. Phys., Lpz 17
132-148).
This hypothesis, which had been tentatively proposed by
Max Planck a few years earlier, directly challenged the
deeply ingrained wave picture of light. However,Einstein
was able to use the idea to explain certain puzzles about
the way that light or other electromagnetic radiation
ejected electrons from a metal via the photoelectric
effect.
Maxwell's electrodynamics could not, for example, explain
why the energy of the ejected photoelectrons depended
only on the frequency of the incident light and not on
the intensity. However, this phenomenon was easy to
understand if light of a certain frequency actually
consisted of discrete packets or photons all with the
same energy.
Einsteinwould go on to receive the 1921 Nobel Prize for
Physics for this work, although the official citation
stated that the prize was also awarded "for his services
to theoretical physics".
"The argumentsEinsteinused in the photoelectric and
subsequent radiation theory are staggering in their
boldness and beauty," says Frank Wilczek, a theorist at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shared the
2004 Nobel Prize for Physics.
"He put forward revolutionary ideas that both inspired
decisive experimental work and helped launch quantum
theory." Although not fully appreciated at the time,
Einstein'swork on the quantum nature of light was the
first step towards establishing the wave-particle duality
of quantum particles.
On 30 April, one month before his paper on the
photoelectric effect appeared in print,Einstein
completed his second 1905 paper, in which he showed how
to calculate Avogadro's number and the size of molecules
by studying their motion in a solution.
This article was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the
University of Zurich in July, and published in a slightly
altered form in Annalen der Physik in January 1906.
Despite often being obscured by the fame of his papers on
special relativity and the photoelectric effect,
Einstein'sthesis on molecular dimensions became one of
his most quoted works.
Indeed, it was his preoccupation with statistical
mechanics that formed the basis of several of his
breakthroughs, including the idea that light was
quantized.
After finishing a doctoral thesis, most physicists would
be either celebrating or sleeping. But just 11 days later
Einsteinsent another paper to Annalen der Physik, this
time on the subject of Brownian motion.
In this paper, "On the movement of small particles
suspended in stationary liquids required by the
molecular-kinetic theory of heat",Einsteincombined
kinetic theory and classical hydrodynamics to derive an
equation that showed that the displacement of Brownian
particles varies as the square root of time (Ann. Phys.,
Lpz 17 549-560).
This was confirmed experimentally by Jean Perrin three
years later, proving once and for all that atoms do
exist. In fact,Einsteinextended his theory of Brownian
motion in an additional paper that he sent to the journal
on 19 December, although this was not published until
February 1906.
A special discovery
Shortly after finishing his paper on Brownian motion
Einsteinhad an idea about synchronizing clocks that were
spatially separated.
_______________________
Adapted from "The Mechanical Universe"
Episode 43: Velocity and Time
In the 1800s Michael Faraday discovered, or I should say
formalized, electromagnetic induction. Given a coil of
wire and a bar magnet...
F = qE + qv x B
Holding the coil stationary and moving the bar magnet
produced an electric current in the coil. Similarly
holding the bar magnet stationary and moving the coil
also produced an electric current in the coil.
But in the language of electrodynamics of the day the two
cases were distinct independent phenomena that had
completely different explanations.
When AlbertEinsteinsaw that, he said "Look guys, you've
just got to be kidding--Any yo-yo can see that these are
the same thing".
So it was this little experiment that was really the
start of relativity, not the Michelson-Morley
Experiment--not some exotic experiment to detect the
motion of the earth through the aether.
With this simple little phenomenon, that of course
everybody knew about, disturbed nobody else, but Albert
Einstein.
This led him to write a paper that landed on the desks of
Annalen der Physik on 30 June, and would go on to
completely overhaul our understanding of space and time.
Some 30 pages long and containing no references, his
fourth 1905 paper was titled "On the electrodynamics of
moving bodies" (Ann. Phys., Lpz 17 891-921).
In the 200 or so years before 1905, physics had been
built on Newton's laws of motion, which were known to
hold equally well in stationary reference frames and in
frames moving at a constant velocity in a straight line.
Provided the correct "Galilean" rules were applied, one
could therefore transform the laws of physics so that
they did not depend on the frame of reference.
However, the theory of electrodynamics developed by
Maxwell in the late 19th century posed a fundamental
problem to this "principle of relativity" because it
suggested that electromagnetic waves always travel at the
same speed.
Either electrodynamics was wrong or there had to be some
kind of stationary "ether" through which the waves could
propagate.
_______________________
I just want to read to you the first two paragraphs of
Einsteins 4th paper...
ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES
By A.Einstein
June 30, 1905
It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics--as usually
understood at the present time--when applied to moving
bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be
inherent in the phenomena.
Take, for
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