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From: Me, ...again! on 25 May 2010 08:18


Was Einstein right or wrong?

What we have are two schools of thought: i) Einstein did something, vs.
ii) a bunch of experts/skeptics who think Einstein made a lot of noise,
more heat than light, and fooled a lot of people.

Here, below, are many more books which cast much doubt on Einstein's
"contributions"......

(all dug up by searches on Amazon.com under: au=einstein)

Note that most of these books were written in the last decade or two. If
we do a search going back to the beginnings of SR, GR, then I'm sure
there will be found many many dozens of books written by equally smart
people who challenge and/or do not accept Einstein.

I think it would be foolish to think the story is over, final, and
finished.

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Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius [Paperback]
Hans C. Ohanian (Author)

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Einstein's Greatest Mistake: Abandonment of the Aether
by Sid Deutsch

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Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary?
by, Tom Bethell

Review....
That a book by a great and established writer like Tom Bethell,
who is a long-time science writer and political columnist at The
American Spectator, hasn't been officially reviewed yet, says
more about those who pose as the intellectual and editorial
guardians of literature than it does about the quality of this
book or the stature of its author. In fact, it is an engaging,
well researched book about one of the most interesting paradigm
struggles of the twentieth century (and still ongoing today).
That Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (SR) was influenced
by and made quickly popular by the relativistic ideologies of
its time (1905) seems to this writer a foregone conclusion.
But it was the Michelson-Morley experiment that failed to
detect a "luminiferous ether," which gave SR scientific credibility.
But Michelson himself soon doubted its conclusions and proved it in
the later Michelson-Gale experiment which did detect an ether.

H. Lorentz, a contemporary of Einstein, and a scientist of equal
stature, argued in numerous debates with Einstein that all
"relativistic effects" (such as the bending of starlight as it
passes near the sun) were the result of light traveling through
an "entrained ether" which surrounds and moves with planetary
bodies--otherwise known as the gravitational field. Other
well-known physicists of the day also doubted the veracity of
SR, especially its principle of space-time distortion. A few
were: Herbert Dingle, whose "paradox" asked the question of
which "clock" would run slow (and thus experience time dilation
predicted by SR) of two relativistic travelers; as for example two
rocket ships in different inertial frames (i.e., going at different
speeds relative to each other). Another physicist, H. Ives, of the
famous Ives-Stillwell experiment to test the Doppler effect of
fast moving mesons, became a lifelong enemy of Einstein because
he felt that his results were being misinterpreted. And there were
many others who disagreed with Einstein's fundamental conclusions.

Even Einstein himself, as Bethell points out, later in life admitted
that forces propagating through empty space without a medium in
which they could be conveyed, was a logical absurdity--a fact never
mentioned in textbooks, or in other "easy Einstein" books. In the
later part of the twentieth century, other scientific critics picked
up where Lorentz and his contemporaries had left off. Among them were
Tom Van Flandern, Carver Mead, and Petr Beckmann. Bethell concentrates
on Beckmann's critique, written in a technical book called Einstein
Plus Two, in which the author claims that all the effects of both
Special and General Relativity can be explained using classical
physics. Bethell brings Beckmann's book down to earth from the arcane
heights of Mt. Olympus by rendering Beckmann's mathematical descriptions
understandable to the layman.

If you are interested in the history of one of the most pivotal scientific
ideas of our time, if you have always believed that the world should
make sense but would still like to know about the mysteries of relativity,
this book may be for you. And this reviewer might add that although
Bethell might not know it yet, this may be his most significant book.
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Challenging Modern Physics: Questioning Einstein's Relativity
Theories by Al Kelly

review...
Al Kelly is right, July 3, 2009 By Alvin D. Heindel "another patent
examiner" (USA) - See all my reviews


This review is from: Challenging Modern Physics: Questioning Einstein's
Relativity Theories (Paperback)
Al Kelly should be commended for his courage in standing up to the
Einsteinian science mafia. The twin paradox proves Einsteinian relativity
is impossible. Einstein's theories should be called absolutivity which is
another logical contradiction. It was created when scientists believed in
the steady state theory of the universe. Now that scientists accept Hubble's
big bang theory and the fact that the earth's velocity has been measured
relative to the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the
big bang, it shows you can measure an absolute velocity based on Einstein's
theories. Also, scientists believe there's nothing outside the event horizon
around our universe. This provides us with another means for measuring a
velocity relative to a point in space which is an absolute velocity based
on Einstein's theories. Obviously, space and aether are infinite and gravity
is an aether density gradient, not curved space. Kelly doesn't mention
G. BURNISTON BROWN's discussion of the twin paradox in the Bulletin of
the Institute of Physics and Physical Society, Vol. 18 (March, 1967) pp.
71--77, easily found on the internet. He provides another good
anti-Einstein argument based on the twin paradox. I tend to think H. A.
Lorentz's theory might be the best one. Also, Einstein insisted relativity
depends on the existence of the aether which is denied by the physics
establishment. SRT depends on the existence of the aether, the same way
Newtonian relativity depends on the existence of space. In Lorentz's
theory, the aether is NOT at absolute rest. A. J. Kox gives a translation
of one paragraph from one of Lorentz's articles: 37 It should be emphasized
that LORENTZ did not adhere to the idea of absolute space. In LORENTZ (1895)
(sect. 2), for instance, he states that it is meaningless to talk about
absolute rest of the ether and that the expression 'the ether is at rest'
only means that the different parts of the ether do not move with respect to
each other (AHESc-1988 pages 67-78).
This is given as a reference:
1895 Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern (Leiden: Brill, 1895); repr. in CP, Vol. 5, pp. 1-138.
The 1906 reprint can be downloaded from Google books.

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Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist by Christopher Jon
Bjerknes (Paperback - July 2002)

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Einstein's Riddle: Riddles, Paradoxes, and Conundrums to Stretch
Your Mind by Jeremy Stangroom (Hardcover - Apr. 28, 2009)

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Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein
by John W. Moffat (Hardcover - Sept. 30, 2008)

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What Einstein Did Not See: Redefining Time to Understand
Space by Thomas W. Sills (Paperback - June 1, 2009)

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Einstein's Greatest Blunder?: The Cosmological Constant and
Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe
(Questions of Science) by Donald Goldsmith (Paperback - Oct. 15, 1997)

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Dialog About Objections Against the Theory of Relativity
by Albert Einstein (Paperback - Nov. 12, 2009)

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The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and
Sommerfeld: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties
1900-1925 1 (The Historical Development of ... and the
Rise of Its Difficulties 1900-1925)
by Jagdish Mehra and H. Rechenberg (Paperback - Dec. 28, 2000)

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The Einstein Myth and the Ives Papers: A Counter-Revolution in
Physics by Dean Turner; Richard Hazelett (Paperback - Oct. 1, 2005)

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Einstein on Trial or Metaphysical Principles of Natural
Philosophy by Jorge Cespedes-Cure (Paperback - July 1, 2002)

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Einstein as Myth and Muse by Alan J. Friedman and
Carol C. Donley (Paperback - Apr. 28, 1989)

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Space, Time, And Matter And The Falsity of Einstein's Theory
Of Relativity (Paperback)
~ Kamen George Kamenov (Author), Kamen G. Kamenov (Illustrator

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A classic book.!!!, December 4, 2008 By Peter Stone (USA) - See all
my reviews

This review is from: Space, Time, And Matter And The Falsity of
Einstein's Theory Of Relativity (Paperback)
In 1972 the famous British professor Herbert Dingle,
an ex-relativist who turned into antirelativist, published
a book against relativity titled: Science at the crossroads.
Because of that he was gradually removed from the "scientiffic"
establishment. Kamen Kamenov's book is one of the books, alongside
those of Herbert Dingle, Harald Nordenson and Henri Bergson,
highly recommendable to those who really want to understand how
incurably flawed and useless the "theory" in question is and
why it should be abandoned in its entirety. Some books are hard
to find. Look in "bookfinder.com" and read about the above
mentionned autors in Wikipedia.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
A revolutionary new book !, May 30, 2001 By
Robert (Berkeley,California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Space, Time and Matter, and the Falsity of
Einstein's Theory of Relativity (Paperback)
Provocative and fascinating. Mr. Kamenov provides the clearest
possible nonmathematical explanation of the present day understanding
of the theory of relativity and then unmistakably disproves it. His
logic is undeniable . I think that after reading the book nobody
can believe in the validity of the theory of relatvity any longer
but quite the opposite is true,the theory is wrong. Mr. Kamenov
explains in plain langauge the real nature of relity and offers
alternative solution to the theory of relativity. He proves
the existence of ether. The book deals not only with theory of
relativity but also with the philosophy of space, time and physical
matter and explains in a plain , nonmathematical way the nature
of electricity , magnetism and gravitation. This book is realy
easy to understand but it requires an abstract thinking . It
is a great exercise for the mind and Mr. Kamenov is a great mind.
I read the book several times and every time it was even more
interesting. I could not stop reading it. I believe that this
book will revolutionize the modern science. It is a real treasure.

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Einstein, the Aether & Variable Rest Mass (Paperback)
~ Jack Heighway (Author)

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Einstein's Relativity Theory: Correct, Paradoxical, and Wrong
by Lyubomir, T. Gruyitch (Hardcover - Dec. 6, 2006)

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