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| aetherist:
--- Quote from: HuronKing on April 06, 2022, 04:35:58 pm ---Hooh boy that G.O. Muller is something else... and it's rather gross to see Lenard included in their list of 'totally not anti-Semitic critics of relativity.' https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelists-attacked-einstein-s-jewish-science-excerpt1/ Methinks they doth protest too much. PS I'm not suggesting that all or even most critics of relativity are anti-Semitic and I've made no such suggestions in the many comments I've made so far (relativity stands just fine on its own on purely physical grounds). Most critics just plain don't understand relativity, after all, they say stupid stuff like: --- Quote ---I don’t know what STR predicts re fast moving electrons. --- End quote --- But, since G.O. Muller has now been submitted here, it's worth pointing out directly that yes - much historic criticism of relativity in Germany IS founded on anti-Semitism and the constant accusations of a global 'Einsteinist but we totally don't mean Jewish conspiracy' is worrisome. --- End quote --- Is there anything specific in what Mueller & Lenard said that is wrong, re their criticisms of STR & GTR? Me myself i don’t agree with every criticism in Mueller's book. He has hundreds. Some criticisms are fatal to STR or GTR, some are important but not fatal. My above question refers to any fatal criticism. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---The inflow streamlines that i alluded to are streamlines of aether acceleration, not streamlines of velocity or speed. --- End quote --- How does acceleration towards a central point from every point on a sphere not increase something in the middle? It has to go somewhere, doesn'tduznt it? So there must presumably be streamlines of deceleration to match. Somewhere. And... how can you have acceleration without a change in velocity or speed? |
| TimFox:
"Overall while I don't have Wazeck's full book, just the paper, it gives me a sense of her opinion and I personally think she is far too compassionate to the anti-scientific (sometimes anti-Semitic) crowd that opposed relativity. Steinmetz knew who he was dealing with - he called them cowardly hacks." Before the exodus of politically-incorrect and ethnically-unwanted scientists from Germany in the 1930s, Steinmetz was a refugee from Germany to the US in 1889 (first to Switzerland in 1888) due to political activity at the University of Breslau (and some personal problems), and (among many other publications) presented a seminal paper on complex algebra for AC in 1893 (at a congress held in conjunction with the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition), and a monograph on relativity theory in 1923. I encountered a good short biographical sketch ("Proteus") near the end of the first section ("The 42nd Parallel") of John Dos Passos' very thick book "USA". The sketch ended "Steinmetz was the most valuable piece of apparatus General Electric had until he wore out and died." I recommend that long novel to technically-minded readers: the text includes conflicts between engineers and capitalists. |
| aetherist:
--- Quote from: HuronKing on April 06, 2022, 08:56:19 pm ---I had to dig a bit more into the 100 Authors Against Einstein and I was not disappointed. It appears most of them were not even competent in understanding the theory and many of them just whinged about religious/philosophical objections (not scientific): https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/11/100-authors-against-einstein-a-look-in-the-rearview-mirror/ And this is why so much of their counter-material was rejected for publication. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.961.1404&rep=rep1&type=pdf --- Quote ---I can make neither head nor tail of the articles of Dr. Reuterdahl (...) the language which he uses makes no connection with my own equipment of scientific concepts, and I see no reason for supposing that it conceals any important scientific truth. --- End quote --- (Dr. Edwin Kemble to Heidenreich, 29 February 1932, copy, RP 4-24) Overall while I don't have Wazeck's full book, just the paper, it gives me a sense of her opinion and I personally think she is far too compassionate to the anti-scientific (sometimes anti-Semitic) crowd that opposed relativity. Steinmetz knew who he was dealing with - he called them cowardly hacks. --- End quote --- I will try to read thems papers. I might be able to refer to some others that i have. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---I wonder whether there has been a flame on spacelab? --- End quote --- |
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