The Norman Split P1

BARNES REVEW MAY/JUNE 2001

WAS EINSTEIN AN 'EINSTEIN'?
THE ESTABLISHMENT MYTH OF ALBERT EINSTEIN'S GENIUS
BY V.S. HERRELL, B.S., M.E., CH.D.

Throughout his early years, Einstein was an unknown outside of the narrow world of physics. But starting in 1919 he became celebrated around the world. Einstein owed his sudden fame to the headline writers of newspapers in England and America.


Albert Einstein is held up by the establishment as a rare genius who drastically changed the field of theoretical physics. As such, he is made an idol to young people, and his very name has become synonymous with genius. The truth, however, is very different. The reality is that Einstein was no "rocket scientist" he was a relatively ignorant person who could not even tie his own shoelaces. He contributed nothing original to the field of physics or any other science, but on the contrary he stole the ideas of other men, and the establishment media made him a hero.


When we actually examine the life of Albert Einstein, we find that his only brilliance lay in his ability to plagiarize and steal other people's ideas, passing them off as his own. Einstein's education, or lack thereof, is an important part of this story. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of Einstein's early education that he "showed little scholastic ability." It also says that at the age of 15, "with poor grades in history, geography and languages, he left school with no diploma." Einstein himself wrote in a school paper of his "lack of imagination and practical ability." In 1895, Einstein failed a simple entrance exam to an engineering school in Zurich. This exam consisted mainly of mathematical problems, and Einstein showed himself to be mathematically inept in this exam. He then entered a lesser school hoping to use it as a stepping stone to the engineering school he could not get into, but after graduating in 1900, he still could not get a position at the engineering school. Unable to go to the school as he had wanted, he got a job (with the help of a friend) at the patent office in Bern. He was to be a technical expert third class, which meant that he was too incompetent for a higher qualified position. Even after publishing his so-called groundbreaking papers of 1905 and after working in the patent office for six years, he was only elevated to a second class standing. Remember, the work he was doing at the patent office, for which he was only rated third class, was not quantum mechanics or theoretical physics, but was reviewing technical documents for patents of everyday things, yet he was barely qualified.


He would work at the patent office until 1909, all the while continuously trying to get a position at a university, but without success. All of these facts are true, but now begins the myth. Supposedly, while working a full-time job, without the aid of university colleagues, a staff of graduate students, a laboratory, or any of the things normally associated with an academic setting, Einstein in his spare time wrote four ground-breaking essays in the field of theoretical physics that were published in 1905. Many people have recognized the impossibility of such a feat, including Einstein himself, and therefore Einstein has led people to believe that many of these ideas came to him in his sleep, out of the blue, because indeed that is the only logical explanation of how an admittedly inept fellow could have written such documents at the age of 26, without any real education. However, a simpler explanation exists: Einstein stole the ideas and plagiarized the papers.


Therefore, we will look at each of these ideas and discover the sources of them. It should be remembered that these ideas are presented by Einstein's worshippers as totally new and completely different, each of which would change forever the landscape of science. These four papers dealt with the following four ideas: (1) The foundation of the photon theory of light; (2) The equivalence of energy and mass; (3) The explanation of Brownian motion in liquids; (4) The special theory of relativity.