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Originally Posted by James Hutchins
Not true. I knew him when I was a child in Princeton. The fool could not even drive a car! He was also a womanizer and a sex pervert. A lot of his 'Theories' he later took back and admitted they were hooey.
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And yet we rely on his theory of relativity to make GPS satellites work, among other things. Generally, theories with real-world applications tend to be at least mostly right.
You are attempting to defame the messanger instead of argue against the message. Here on the Planet Earth, that's what we call an Ad Homenim attack, and serves no purpose other than to expose you as a bit of a tool. The nice thing about the scientific method is that it doesn't care who figures stuff out, what they like to do in bed, or anything other than whether or not what they said is right. And in the case of Einstein, much of what he said does indeed happen to be right. I won't call you a liar, but you are misinformed. Pretty much every model he developed has been shown t work by experiment and observation. He did admit that setting the cosmological constant (those are big words - you'll need to look them up) to zero when he formulate general relativity was the "biggest blunder of his career" but it was the correct thing to do given the observastional evidence at the time. It wasn't until 10 years after he published general relativity that Hubble discovered everything in the universe was receeding. As for special relativity, the photoelectric effect, brownian motion, Bose-Einstein statistics, and the Einstein A and B coefficients so vital for building lasers, well - they all work. Experiment bears them out and verifies the predictions they make. Same with general relativity. Go read a book and learn something rather than make a poor attempt at tarnishing the work of a true genius.