Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site iham1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!iham1!gjphw From: gjphw@iham1.UUCP (wyant) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: meta-physics Message-ID: <428@iham1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:05:07 EDT Article-I.D.: iham1.428 Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:05:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:25:25 EDT References: <476@sri-arpa.ARPA> <529@utastro.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 > > I saw some references to Einstein saying though > > he was "adventurous" in his thoughts, others could verify his > > arguments. Not so. His ideas were rejected by the "scientific community" > > for years before they accepted them. None the less, he continued. > > This is historically inaccurate. Einstein's theories, published in > 1905, attracted attention quite early. > Bill Jefferys I would like to amplify what Bill Jefferys said about A. Einstein. There was no time, to my knowledge, when Albert or his ideas/theories were considered crank or dismissed by the scientific community. Albert always dwelt with the major issues in physics at the turn of the century. Einstein's difficulties with the scientific community stemmed not from his physics but from his personality. As a young man, Albert was almost insufferably arrogant. In the small academic community of 1900, the reputation and character of any aspiring university professor would be well known to most established departments. His arrogance was in part to blame for Albert's inability to land a university position right out of college (which, with some help, led to the patent office job, which allowed Albert ample spare time without pressure to consider the grand design and operation of the universe, which produced papers on the photoelectric effect, special relativity, and some of the concepts toward general relativity). Patrick Wyant AT&T Bell Laboratories (Naperville, IL) *!iham1!gjphw