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3.0 out of 5 stars
Einstein's Theory of Relativity Still a Masterpiece, Oct 17 2003
By A Customer
Before we jump to conclusions as to whether Einstein plagiarized the Theory of Relativity, it must be said at the outset that the theory itself is excruciatingly complex. We have to trace the idea back to its original idea. This may be difficult to prove in a pure sense as many were involved in the formulation of it by bits and pieces.Poincare came up with the idea and Lorentz also had a hand in its development. Elements of the theory had its roots even in the calculus.Admittedly it is difficult to draw a line where somebody left off and somebody else creates a "new" theory or an original idea. Einstein was the first to collate all the syntheses of the theory into a "calculus of the theory of relativity". No one had done this before. And Einstein was the first to extend and apply the theory to the physical universe itself. Lorentz and Poincare were pure mathematicians, not physicists. At one time, Einstein enlisted the help of the famous mathematician Kurt Godel. Godel said, "I don't know physics" but Einstein said, "I know physics and you know mathematics". Afterwards Godel went to work for Einstein. As we all know in science, we all stand "on the shoulders of others". No one, I repeat, no one is the supreme genius of all time. Yes, of course, Einstein should have acknowledged his sources for his theory. I am sure he was aware of the literature, otherwise he would not have known where the others left off and where he was to begin. In his time, when his theory was first published, everyone was astonished and that's why he was so controversial.Everyone at the time knew it was something different and as it turned out later, great!
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