In article <ZksX8.46464$P%6.3231202 at news2.west.cox.net> "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> writes:
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<"Thalamus" <zhil at online.no> wrote in message
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<> Yes, I've read that the theory was finished 5 years before he 'discovered'
<> it thorugh a 'dream'.
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<Isn't it astounding that we, a supposedly advanced technological society,
<got sucked into this LIE about Einstein's "dream" for more than half a
<century?
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Oh, it's even more astonishing than that when you realize that Einstein
never said anything about ideas coming to him in a dream. Thalamus
is likely thinking about Kekule and benzene. Or possibly the novel and
subsequent musical of the same name. Or conceivably Einstein's thought
experiment about travelling on a wave of light.
But of course the fact that no one ever claimed this happened is not about to
keeep Johnny from screaming "LIE", is it?
You're right, Johnny. It is a "lie".
<The original papers were actually published 10 to 20 years before Einstein
<claimed he had this "dream", which gave him (and his compatriots) plenty of
<time to set us up. With communications being so slow at the time, it's not
<surprising that they were able to pull it off.
SMURFLE!! Yeah, those primitive early twentieth century Krauts, why
it sometimes took several weeks for the latest issue of "Annalen der Physik"
to reach the universities.
-- cary
