Einstein is considered the world’s greatest genius for creating the theory of relativity. How Einstein Ruined Physics explains relativity, how it was discovered, and how it fits into a long history of trying to understand motion and symmetry. The book shows that Einstein’s role is badly misunderstood.
Modern physics books often describe a fantasy world that has less and less to do with reality. They tell of alternate universes, cosmic singularities, and extra dimensions. When they lack evidence for these ideas, they argue that they are following Einstein's example and looking for the next revolution.
Einstein's example is detailed. He is famous for uniting space and time in the theory of relativity, and for revolutionizing science with pure thought. In fact, his famous relativity paper merely postulated what had previously been proved, and he did not even understand why space and time were being united. The essentials of relativity are explained, along with how they were discovered.
The crucial ideas behind relativity are motion and symmetry, and these are the most basic ideas on all of science. Relativity was the culmination of an ancient quest to understand the motion of the Earth. The story takes us from ancient Greeks like Aristotle, through medieval debates over Copernicus and Galileo, and up to the modern search for dark matter and energy.
Somehow it has become fashionable in physics to try for some sort of abstract Einsteinian revolution instead of explaining observable realities. This book dispels the myths about physics progressing by pure thought, and shows that following Einstein's dream is an entirely bad idea. Published by Dark Buzz.
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From the Back Cover
Einstein was the greatest public idol of the twentieth century. He became famous among the general public for being a great and humble genius, among intellectuals for discovering relativity, among philosophers for redefining the scientific revolution, and among physicists for his pursuit of a unified field theory. These are all great mistakes, and they have driven physics research into the study of alternative universes and other ideas that have no scientific foundation.
This book carefully dissects these myths. It explains the development of relativity in the context of an ancient struggle to understand motion and symmetry. It shows that Einstein's role has been exaggerated, and has been used to undermine science. Physics is no longer the science that all other sciences emulate.
About the Author
Roger Schlafly got his BSE degree from Princeton University in Electrical Engineering (Engineering Physics program), and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He currently lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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Einstein is considered the world’s greatest genius for creating the theory of relativity. How Einstein Ruined Physics explains relativity, how it was discovered, and how it fits into a long history of trying to understand motion and symmetry. The book shows that Einstein’s role is badly misunderstood.
Modern physics books often describe a fantasy world that has less and less to do with reality. They tell of alternate universes, cosmic singularities, and extra dimensions. When they lack evidence for these ideas, they argue that they are following Einstein's example and looking for the next revolution.
Einstein's example is detailed. He is famous for uniting space and time in the theory of relativity, and for revolutionizing science with pure thought. In fact, his famous relativity paper merely postulated what had previously been proved, and he did not even understand why space and time were being united. The essentials of relativity are explained, along with how they were discovered.
The crucial ideas behind relativity are motion and symmetry, and these are the most basic ideas on all of science. Relativity was the culmination of an ancient quest to understand the motion of the Earth. The story takes us from ancient Greeks like Aristotle, through medieval debates over Copernicus and Galileo, and up to the modern search for dark matter and energy.
Somehow it has become fashionable in physics to try for some sort of abstract Einsteinian revolution instead of explaining observable realities. This book dispels the myths about physics progressing by pure thought, and shows that following Einstein's dream is an entirely bad idea. Published by Dark Buzz. **
From the Back Cover
Einstein was the greatest public idol of the twentieth century. He became famous among the general public for being a great and humble genius, among intellectuals for discovering relativity, among philosophers for redefining the scientific revolution, and among physicists for his pursuit of a unified field theory. These are all great mistakes, and they have driven physics research into the study of alternative universes and other ideas that have no scientific foundation. This book carefully dissects these myths. It explains the development of relativity in the context of an ancient struggle to understand motion and symmetry. It shows that Einstein's role has been exaggerated, and has been used to undermine science. Physics is no longer the science that all other sciences emulate.
About the Author
Roger Schlafly got his BSE degree from Princeton University in Electrical Engineering (Engineering Physics program), and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He currently lives in Santa Cruz, California.