tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post6136721187740871910..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Einstein heads list of historical fraudsRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-49222998806358850342020-07-17T11:19:28.712-07:002020-07-17T11:19:28.712-07:00I don't know anything about Romanoff. He does ...I don't know anything about Romanoff. He does make some exaggerated statements, and I am not trusting him as a source of info. I am just commenting on his conclusions.<br /><br />Yes, Whittaker was not an Einstein-hater, and credited Einstein for other things. Just not for special relativity.<br /><br />Special relativity is widely considered to be Einstein's greatest accomplishment. He continues to be credited for it, long after it was shown that Lorentz and Poincare had everything before Einstein, and that Einstein got special relativity from them.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-45990240995692429062020-07-17T00:46:09.480-07:002020-07-17T00:46:09.480-07:00Roger, It seems that no one else is going to objec...Roger, It seems that no one else is going to object, so please let me.<br /><br />First, you should check out this guy Romanoff. He seems to be the source of a lot of strange mischief, for instance that the coronavirus originated in the United States.<br /><br />Well of course you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet, but I also see Romanoff contributes to an anti-semitic pro-Russian journal.<br /><br />As for Sir Edmund Whitaker, I have his book (in a later addition) and although he dismisses Einstein’s contribution to special relativity, he does credit Einstein for general relativity and his contributions to quantum mechanics. <br /><br />While I would agree that Lorentz and Poincare have been unfairly treated by history, I found nothing in Whittaker that dissuaded me from the view that Einstein was one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, physicist of the last century.Dan Shanahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240342697478880476noreply@blogger.com