Re: Anyone ever read this Einstein book?

To Gene

You can always read the fictional 1898 novel by H.G.Wells which is
free on Bartleby which constitutes the basis for relativity.If you wish
to destroy you rown mind for a homocentric extension and expansion of
Newtonian quasi-geocentricity,then be my guest.At least I can stand
back and have no pretensions to the contrary that relativity begins and
ends as fiction -

"'Scientific people,' proceeded the Time Traveller, after the
pause required for the proper assimilation of this, 'know very well
that Time is only a kind of Space" Time Machine 1898

http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html

"THE NON-MATHEMATICIAN is seized by a mysterious shuddering when he
hears of "four-dimensional" things, by a feeling not unlike that
awakened by thoughts of the occult. And yet there is no more
common-place statement than that the world in which we live is a
four-dimensional space-time continuum"

http://www.bartleby.com/173/17.html

The mysterious shuddering should be that of laughter but as the
concept highlights the unethical Newtonian maneuvering which departed
from pure heliocentricity to quasi-geocentricity and disrupted the
progress of what Kepler called 'contemplative astronomy ' *,it has
become a serious affair that affects what human achievement is and how
it is appreciated.

* "To set down in books the apparent paths of the planets [vias
planetarum apparentes] and the record of their motions is especially
the task of the practical and mechanical part of astronomy; to discover

their true and genuine path [vias vero veras et genuinas] is . . .the
task of contemplative astronomy; while to say by what circle and lines
correct images of those true motions may be depicted on paper is the
concern of the inferior tribunal of geometers"


Kepler 'Mysterium Cosmographicum'

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