Einstein-genius or thief?

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Summer3

@Summer3

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Posted: 7 years ago

Einstein was an enlightened soul with great love for people and animals too.

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nigahen

@nigahen

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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: Summer3
Einstein was an enlightened soul with great love for people and animals too.

But listen to the video, na. You didnt even mention the genius part so the other aspects are even more transparent. Great love for people-he didnt leave a penny to his kids, refused to recognize some of his kids borne out of illegitimate liaisons, wished genocide on the German people just because of German nationalism. At the same time, he espoused the Zionist cause and Israeli nationalism and Israel's war on the people of Palestine. How come one nationalism is bad but the other is very good?

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souro

@souro

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Posted: 7 years ago

Nowadays it has become fashionable to degrade past legends. Every aira gaira seems to think that they know better than those who have actually excelled in a field, and with social media they have an easy way to spread their stupid views. Like how these stupid Youtubers think they know more than Einstein's contemporaries and actual scientists.

It's okay to have difference in opinion, especially if there is logic in it, but making outrageous accusations without proof is stupidity. Had he plagiarised, it would have been his contemporaries who would have raised objections. Did they?

The other aspects that you are talking about, are more moralistic in nature and has nothing to do with his scientific brilliance. He might have done things that were morally wrong, he might have had opinions that were morally wrong, but that doesn't make him any less a genius as a scientist. It'd only make him a less than perfect human being.

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nigahen

@nigahen

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Posted: 7 years ago

^^ But listen to the video please. His contemporaries did raise objections at the time and most of his discoveries were already known and accepted. The scientists names are mentioned.

His 1921 book Meaning of Relativity was plagiarized from the Lawrence Transformation. Plagiarism of the Mass-energy equivalence largely based on the work of George Fitzgerald and Hendrick Lawrence, Dutch and Irish theoretical physicists. and also the work of French physicist Henri Poincare who developed the Theory of Relativity years before Einstein.

Also plagiarism of Thomas Gerber's groundbreaking work on the speed of gravity.

And the idea that the speed of light was a constant and independent of the motion of its source was not Einstein's at all but was proposed by the Scottish scientist James Maxwell in 1878.

Also Berhard Ryman was the first to develop a sound non-Euclidean geometry which is the basis of all math used to describe all relativity.

Also Heinrich Hertz, the father of a unit of frequency Hertz discovered that electrodes illuminated with UV light and they create electric sparks more easily. Well in 1905 Einstein published a paper explaining this, the same experiment from Hertz's photoelectric effect and it was actually Hertz's discovery that led to the Quantum Revolution. Yet Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the discovery of the law of photoelectric effects.

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CherHorowitz

@TotalBetty

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Posted: 7 years ago

Off topic but

Alexander Graham Bell plagiarized the initial telephone design of his rival Elisha Gray and won the race to secure what would become the most valuable U.S. patent ever issued, according to a recent book.

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@BhetuPunha

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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: souro
Nowadays it has become fashionable to degrade past legends. Every aira gaira seems to think that they know better than those who have actually excelled in a field, and with social media they have an easy way to spread their stupid views. Like how these stupid Youtubers think they know more than Einstein's contemporaries and actual scientists.
It's okay to have difference in opinion, especially if there is logic in it, but making outrageous accusations without proof is stupidity. Had he plagiarised, it would have been his contemporaries who would have raised objections. Did they?

The other aspects that you are talking about, are more moralistic in nature and has nothing to do with his scientific brilliance. He might have done things that were morally wrong, he might have had opinions that were morally wrong, but that doesn't make him any less a genius as a scientist. It'd only make him a less than perfect human being.

Einsteins research paper on Special Relativity theory had no references 😲.

A research paper without any references is usually a red herring for plagiarism 😆.

Quite a few things presented in that paper were already suggested by Lorentz and Poincare who were definitely not unknown entities at that time 😎. So it is impossible that Einstein did not know about them or their theories 🤔. Inspite of all this it is amusing that Einsteins paper, without any references was accepted and even published 🤡. There have always been plagiarism allegations against him, it is just that you may not be aware of them.

Edited by BhetuPunha - 7 years ago

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sudesh kumar

@qwertyesque

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Posted: 7 years ago

its important to understand thoughts don't have copy rights... ok one thing internet has led to is giving anyone and everyone access to google info.. and then the argument is based on that premise...so its foolish to debate on this topic... since no one can really convince the conspiracy theorists and just hope they have better sense!