Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2008 23:13:47 Philippe Landau wrote:
Einstein's theories are flawed and if you look up his 1905 paper you will see that he does not credit the sources he plagiarised: "E = mc2 can be attributed to S. Tolver Preston (1875), to Jules Henri Poincaré (1900; according to Brown, 1967) and to Olinto De Pretto (1904) before Einstein. Since Einstein never correctly derived E = mc2 (Ives, 1952), there appears nothing to connect the equation with anything original by Einstein." The sources are detailed in the papers quoted above. Of course you won't touch them because they are works of "Crackpots" :-)
E=mc2 is not the correct form of the equation, and quoting it as such completely misses the point of Einstein's paper. Come back when you can find a source who understands that
As a sidenote: how is science advanced by discrediting Einstein? It won't produce any new inventions. I can only think of one possible reason for working so hard at it, and it's not a very creditable reason
On the other hand, science has been substantially advanced by failed attempts to discredit Einstein (every experiment which has tested special and general relativity has failed to discredit Einstein, thereby giving greater confidence in the use of his theory).
Anders
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