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Subject: Re: Re: meta-physics
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 13:02:22 EDT
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From:  mikes@orville (Peter Mikes)

	Subject: Re: Re: meta-physics
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	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
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