Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!mikes@orville From: mikes%orville@sri-unix.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: meta-physics Message-ID: <500@sri-arpa.ARPA> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 13:02:22 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.500 Posted: Fri Aug 16 13:02:22 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:29:53 EDT Lines: 32 From: mikes@orville (Peter Mikes) Subject: Re: Re: meta-physics Article-I.D.: <529@utastro.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Article(s) <476@sri-arpa.ARPA> This is historically inaccurate. Einstein's theories, published in 1905, attracted attention quite early. Poincare, who died in 1912, was an early champion. Einstein received his Ph.D. in 1905, and by 1910 was already a FULL Professor. Bill Jefferys 8-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) It was not really that smooth as you make it sound. He was not able to get a job in his field when he graduated. His early work on Irreversible Thermodynamics and Brownian motion, even though important and excellent, was practically ignored and his first professorship in Prague was not considered very desirable. Let's face it: The system did not work that well even then. Yet it did work eventually. I agree with you that it was the strength of logic of his papers which got them accepted and won him the influentual support. It was not the argument "they all laughed.." , but the physical meaning ( path to the experiment ) of his theory which did it. That is what should guide us in this net.physics : we should avoid 'ha ha' as an argument and also '"they" always laugh argument. Some of "they" always laugh, there were some who did even got angry at relativity! In physics.net we should concentrate on the logic of the posting (if any..)! Peter .