142laser wrote:I sincerely apologize to you Dinesh; the joke was supposed to be in fun! Lighten up man.
Thanks and I accept the apology.
Ed, however, is another matter.
The form of his remarks are outrageously and blatantly hateful and pernicious. The spite fairly shoots out! Every comment drips with virulent hatred. All because of some events that occurred over 5 years ago! These events have long since been forgotten by the principles involved - of which he was not one. If John Pecora still has an issue with me, John should be the one to bring it up. The events mentioned had nothing to do with Ed. I've talked to several holographers who simply accept that Ed hates me, but cannot account for it! In private conversations with many holographers, they can't believe that it was this John Pecora affair, but cannot understand why he hates me. What other choice do I have except racism? If racism is ridiculous, so is his basing his hatred on a matter that didn't concern him and that occurred several years ago.
It's not that I have anything against him. If he wishes to contradict or criticise anything I write he can, as can anyone else, bring forth arguments and comments in a polite and civil manner, not like a street barker at a political rally! If he is as technically adept as he claims to be, he should derive his own equations, not use books and the internet to justify arguments. How much I do or don't drink, what my preferences on beer are and other personal matters have nothing to do with the kind of civil discourse I usually have with real intellectuals and real academicians.
142laser wrote:Albert Einstein's wife did many of his calculations or checked them and he is still great right?
I'm sorry to mention it, but that's not true. Mileva was a second rate student and actually failed her undergraduate exams and never graduated. She also never understood Einstein. She was insanely jealous and, according to some sources, kept trying to get Einstein to explain Relativity to him, but never understood it. The source of most of this comes from a letter Einstein wrote to Mileva concerning Besso, a friend and fellow physicist, early in their marriage. Einstein had a great regard for Besso and wrote that Besso tended to concentrate on petty detail and miss the overall picture, but that he was very interested in "our investigations".* It's still not clear that Einstein meant Mileva or Besso. Besso was the only other reference Einstein gave in the 1905 paper, thanking Besso for "interesting conversations". Bear in mind also that he was a 25 year old, madly in love, and so tried to include Mileva in all aspects of his life. All the great physicists of the era, including Lorentz, Poincare and Minkowski, had tried to solve the problem of the aether and a 25 year old complete unknown does it in just 4 equations! Can you imagine what he must have felt like, and how he must have wanted to share it with the woman he loved.
*"Einstein A Life" by Dennis Brian, chap 5, p 33 (though other biographies - and I've read all of them, believe me! - also mention this odd contradiction. )
