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Brent Shadbolt's avatar

Great piece, thank you.

Re the 1913 NYT quote; ‘a universe without ether’… much more plausible to have ‘a universe without relativity’. 😊

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Charles Fout's avatar

Einstein won his Nobel Prize not for relativity, but for the photoelectric effect. And for good reasons.

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AML's avatar

The "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" was probably the best name for a physics conundrum ever.

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Charles Fout's avatar

"Ultraviolet Catastrophe" and "Maunder Minimum" should be band names

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Dr Ferdinand Santos III's avatar

Agree. Einstotle the plagiarising wizard, who never sourced or attributed his work. His tensor maths are tautological and wrong. As the JWST reveals the universe is a flat disc. Relativity was known in the middle ages, the modern variant was invented to save Copernican theory.

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