Einstein, plagiaire? (italien)

Thursday, 19 September 2002
A theory of Einstein the irrational plagiarist
Christopher Jon Bjerknes.

THE name "Einstein" evokes images of a good-humoured genius, who
revolutionised our concepts of space, time, energy, mass and motion.
Time
named Albert Einstein "person of the century". The language itself has
incorporated "Einstein" into our common vocabulary as a synonym for
extraordinary brilliance. Many consider Einstein to have been the
finest
mind in recorded human history.
That is the popular image, fostered by textbooks, the media, and hero
worshiping physicists and historians. However, when one reads the
scientific
literature written by Einstein's contemporaries, a quite different
picture
emerges: one of an irrational plagiarist, who manipulated credit for
their
work.

Einstein is perhaps most famous for the special theory of relativity,
published in 1905 in the German physics journal, Annalen der Physik.
The
paper was devoid of references, a fact that Einstein's friend and Nobel
prize winner for physics, Max Born, found troubling.

"The striking point is that it contains not a single reference to
previous
literature," Born stated in 1955, before the International Relativity
Conference in Bern. "It gives you the impression of quite a new
venture. But
that is, of course, as I have tried to explain, not true."

Though Einstein's 1905 article contained no references, it was so
strikingly
similar to a paper written by Hendrik Lorentz the previous year, that
Walter
Kaufmann and Max Planck felt a need to publicly point out that Einstein
had
merely provided a metaphysical reinterpretation and generalisation of
Lorentz' scientific theory, a metaphysical reinterpretation and
generalisation Henri Poincare had already published.

As Charles Nordmann, astronomer to the Paris Observatory, pointed out:
"It
is really to Henri Poincare, the great Frenchman whose death has left a
void
that will never be filled, that we must accord the merit of having
first
proved, with the greatest lucidity and the most prudent audacity, that
time
and space, as we know them, can only be relative. A few quotations from
his
works will not be out of place. They will show that the credit for most
of
the things which are currently attributed to Einstein is, in reality,
due to
Poincare."

Einstein acknowledged the fact, but justified his plagiarism in a
cavalier
fashion in Annalen der Physik in 1907. "It appears to me that it is the
nature of the business that what follows has already been partly solved
by
other authors. Despite that fact, since the issues of concern are here
addressed from a new point of view, I believe I am entitled to leave
out a
thoroughly pedantic survey of the literature, all the more so because
it is
hoped that these gaps will yet be filled by other authors, as has
already
happened with my first work on the principle of relativity through the
commendable efforts of Mr. Planck and Mr. Kaufmann."

The completed field equations of the general theory of relativity were
first
deduced by David Hilbert, a fact Einstein was forced to acknowledge in
1916,
after he had plagiarised them from Hilbert in late 1915. Paul Gerber
solved
the problem of the perihelion of Mercury in 1898. Physicist Ernst
Gehrcke
gave a lecture on the theory of relativity in the Berlin Philharmonic
on
August 24, 1920, and publicly confronted Einstein, who was in
attendance,
with Einstein's plagiarism of Lorentz' mathematical formalisms of the
special theory of relativity, Palagyi's space-time concepts, Varicak's
non-Euclidean geometry and of the plagiarism of the mathematical
solution of
the problem of the perihelion of Mercury first arrived at by Gerber.
Gehrcke
addressed Einstein to his face and told the crowd that the emperor had
no
clothes.

This was Einstein's response published in the Berliner Tageblatt und
Handels-Zeitung on August 27, 1920, translated into English in the book
Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity edited by Gerald E.
Tauber:
". . . Gerber, who has given the correct formula for the perihelion
motion
of Mercury before I did. The experts are not only in agreement that
Gerber's
derivation is wrong through and through, but the formula cannot be
obtained
as a consequence of the main assumption made by Gerber. Mr Gerber's
work is
therefore completely useless, an unsuccessful and erroneous theoretical
attempt.

"I maintain that the theory of general relativity has provided the
first
real explanation of the perihelion motion of mercury. I have not
mentioned
the work by Gerber originally, because I did not know it when I wrote
my
work on the perihelion motion of Mercury; even if I had been aware of
it, I
would not have had any reason to mention it."

The fact that Einstein was a plagiarist is common knowledge in the
physics
community. What isn't so well-known is that the sources Einstein
parroted
were also largely unoriginal. In 1919, writing in the Philosophical
Magazine
Harry Bateman, a British mathematician and physicist who had emigrated
to
the United States, unsuccessfully sought acknowledgment of his work.

"The appearance of Dr Silberstein's recent article on General
Relativity
without the Equivalence Hypothesis encourages me to restate my own
views on
the subject," Bateman wrote.

"I am perhaps entitled to do this as my work on the subject of general
relativity was published before that of Einstein and Kottler, and
appears to
have been overlooked by recent writers."

My book is a documentation of Einstein's plagiarism of the theory of
relativity. It discloses his method for manipulating credit for the
work of
his contemporaries, reprints the prior works he parroted, and
demonstrates
that he could not have drawn his conclusions without prior knowledge of
the
works he copied but failed to reference.

Numerous republished quotations from Einstein's contemporaries prove
that
they were aware of his plagiarism. Side-by-side comparisons of
Einstein's
words juxtaposed to those of his predecessors prove the almost verbatim
repetition. There is even substantial evidence presented in the book
that
Einstein plagiarised the work of his first wife, Mileva Maric, who had
plagiarised others.

Mr Bjerknes, an American historian of science, has authored six books
on
Einstein and the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein: The
Incorrigible
Plagiarist (ISBN 0971962987) is available at www.amazon.com.

Excerpts at: www.xtxinc.com

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Da: (...)
Data: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:08:34 -0800 (PST)
A: Joe <flespa@tiscali.it>
Oggetto: Re: Eheheheheh....

--- Joe <flespa@tiscali.it> wrote:

> A theory of Einstein the irrational plagiarist
> Christopher Jon Bjerknes.

Tutto vero, tutto noto ad alcuni di noi. Einstein
plagio' Lorenz, Poincare' e anche un italiano (?)
per quanto riguarda la teoria 'speciale', che lui
solo riformulo'. Per la teoria 'generale' si sa che
la moglie Mileva Maric fece tutto il lavoro di base
(infatti al divorzio, come ti dicevo, chiese ed ottenne tutti i
proventi del premio Nobel) e i due assieme
plagiarono Hilbert, Gerber e gli altri. Un vero
figlio di puttana, un appropriatore e plagiaro.

Ma vai a dirlo ai colleghi... Ti becchi subito
dell'antisemita, anche se tutti questi sono a loro
volta plagiari. L'anno scorso il Nobel fu dato a
Gross, Wiczeck e allo studente di Gross che non ha
poi mai fatto altro. Tutti e tre plagiari, Gross
fu sputtanato in pubblico da un altro dei loro per
essersi appropriato delle sue idee e meriti. Tra
di loro sono sempre li' che si beccano come polli,
rubandosi le idee l'un l'altro per fare carriera,
ottenere fama. Ma quando si tratta di confrontare
il pubblico sono tutti compatti e uniti come un
esercito di Mongoli (che e' poi quello che sono).

Infatti si sa che Einstein non prese il Nobel per
la teoria (plagiata) della relativita' e ci si
chiede sempre (da studenti) perche' (eheheheheheh
...). Il premio venne dato per delle semplici
applicazioni della nota e stranota teoria dei
quanti, che manco sua e'. Roba che si racconta agli
studenti in 1 o 2 lezioni (effetto fotoelettrico,
emissione spontanea).

Ma prova, prova a raccontare agli studenti che il
nostro Einstein fu un grosso pallone gonfiato dai
suoi correligionari....

(...)

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