List of 74 Scientists who critiqued and opposed the philosophy of Relativity.
There was, and still is, no 'consensus' that Relativity has even a tangential relationship with reality. It is packaged, marketed and sold as 'truth', when it is anything but.
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that if such and such a proposition is true of anything then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true. Both of these points would belong to applied mathematics…. Thus, mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor what we are saying is true.”
(Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic, 1957, pp. 70-71)
“In my (Einstein’s) scientific activity, I am always hampered by the same mathematical difficulties, which make it impossible for me to confirm or refute my general relativist field theory.”
(Einstein November 25, 1948, quoted in Letters to Solovine, translated by Wade Baskin from the French Lettres à Maurice Solovine, 1987, p. 111)
Russell is right. You can blind anyone with maths. Einstein knew that his maths-only theory was hardly a ‘law’ or ‘axiom’ and he was ‘hampered’ by his own tautological maths. Einstein could not prove his own theory as he admits in the quote above. His theology, preached from a soap box in the village square, had precious little mechanical support and was based on forced answers from largely circular calculus equations.
Abstractions and claims
There exists about 1000 pages of information on this substack pertaining to Relativity. The data provided is based on scientific and philosophical works which are often unknown or rarely investigated. This is true of their authors – scientists, engineers, thinkers – who saw through the charade and magic show of Relativity. Many of these people disproved Einstotle’s tedious theorising with mechanical proofs. Others tore apart his ‘logic’, tautological maths, and philosophical rationales.
They are rarely discussed in the ‘modern’ age of censorship and ignoring reality. These personalities remain mostly unknown, and untaught. Often they are even appropriated by the cult who declare that their disproofs prove Relativity! This is common with ‘The Science’. You see this with ‘climate’, ‘evolution’, ‘virology’ and other areas of ‘consensus’. Even if you factually nullify Relativity’s religious tenets for instance, the cult will declare that you are confirming them!: ‘Every imaginable observation or data point proves our theory’. The cat jumped, the bird flew. The planet wobbled. The light refracted. Einstein was right again!
Relativists will claim that only Einstotle’s theory with its tortured equations explains Mercury’s perihelion, starlight refraction (‘gravitational lensing’, sounds sciency), or the associated impact of gravitation on light transmission. This is despite many other models, explanations and calculations (including Newtonian, Descartian, the aether, plasma, etc) which satisfy the observed phenomena. If I can explain the phenomena with different models and viewpoints it is simply anti-science to state that only something as absurd as Relativity possesses the truth.
Heretics
The short list below of very intelligent people who did not accept Relativity, ably disproves ‘The Science’ and its dogmatic claims of ‘knowledge’, or ‘truths’, as well as its pretensions to ‘consensus’. None of that exists. There never was a consensus that Relativity was remotely valid. Many capable and skilled people, mostly to their financial and professional detriment, opposed Relativity either in whole, or in part.
1. Anderson, Carl (1905-1981) American physicist who discovered anti-matter or positrons, and how material matter is created within an aether. His discoveries nullify Relativity and prove an aether.
2. Appell, Paul Émile: (1855-1930) A French mathematician known for his work on differential equations, mechanics, and the theory of functions. Criticised the lack of rigour in Einstein’s maths.
3. Aspden, Harold: (1929-2011) A British physicist and electrical engineer known for his work on aether theory and alternative physics (any demonstrable aether is anathema to the Relativity cult).
4. Assis, André Koch Torres: (born 1962) A Brazilian physicist who has worked on relational mechanics and the history of electromagnetism, a trenchant critic of Einstein’s maths and logic.
5. Beckmann, Petr: (1924-1993) A Czech-American physicist and writer known for his critiques of relativity and his work on wave propagation.
6. Bergson, Henri: (1859-1941) A French philosopher who emphasized the importance of intuition and lived experience (in contradiction to Relativity), and who developed the concept of ‘élan vital’.
7. Bouasse, Henri Paul: (1874-1943) A French physicist and engineer who wrote extensively on various aspects of physics and mechanics and criticised Relativity.
8. Bragg, William Henry: (1862-1942) A British physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work on X-ray crystallography, which revealed the structure of crystals.
9. Brown, Walter: (1866-1957) An American electrical engineer who worked on telegraphy and related technologies.
10. Brillouin, Léon: (1889-1969) A French-American physicist known for his contributions to solid-state physics, information theory, and wave propagation.
11. Callahan, Philip S: (1923-1993) An American entomologist known for his theories on insect communication and the role of para-magnetism in nature. Magnetic reality is not a part of Relativity.
12. Cauchy, Augustin-Louis: (1789-1857) A French mathematician known for his pioneering work in analysis, including the development of calculus and complex function theory. He and others proved that Einstein’s maths was wrong.
13. Cullwick, Ernest Geoffrey: (1903-1995) A British electrical engineer and physicist known for his work on electromagnetic theory and critiques of relativity.
14. Darboux, Gaston: (1842-1917) A French mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and mathematical analysis. Criticised Relativity for its tautological maths.
15. Denisov, Albert Albertovich: (1930-2018) A Russian physicist known for his work on particle physics and the development of high-energy accelerators. Opposed to the simplistic equations of Relativity.
16. Dingle, Herbert: (1890-1978) A British physicist and philosopher of science known for his never-answered critiques of relativity.
17. Dingler, Hugo: (1881-1954) A German philosopher and mathematician known for his work on the foundations of mathematics and science and his criticism that maths meant reality.
18. Dirac, Paul (1902-1984) English theoretical physicist who was one of the fundamental figures in the development of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics, notably formulating the Dirac equation, which predicted the existence of antimatter and which negates Relativity.
19. Dudley, Homer: (1896-1987) An American physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in speech synthesis and vocoder technology.
20. Duport, Léon: (1832-1916) A French physicist known for his work on electromagnetism and the properties of dielectrics (insulators).
21. Essen, Louis: (1908-1997) A British physicist known for his work on the accurate measurement of time and the speed of light, and his critiques of relativity.
22. Galeczki, Georg: (1901-1990) A German physicist known for his critiques of relativity and quantum mechanics.
23. Gehrcke, Ernst: (1856-1933) A German physicist known for his work in optics and his critiques of relativity.
24. Graneau, Neal: (1931-2006) A British-American physicist known for his work on electromagnetism and his research on the electric arc.
25. Guillaume, Charles Édouard: (1861-1938) A Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on precision measurements in physics and the discovery of invar and elinvar alloys.
26. Heaviside, Oliver: (1850-1925) A British self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques for solving differential equations, and independently developed vector calculus. Criticised the tautology of Einstein’s maths.
27. Heyl, Paul (1872-1961) American physicist and inventor best known for his precise measurements of Newton's gravitational constant and for his co-invention of the Heyl-Briggs earth inductor compass, which aided in early aviation navigation. Asked Einstein difficult questions which were never answered.
28. Ives, Herbert E.: (1882-1953) An American physicist known for his work on optics and his experiments on the Doppler effect, which challenged aspects of special relativity.
29. Kantor, Wallace: (1927-2001) An Australian physicist known for his work on electromagnetic theory and his critiques of special relativity.
30. Kanarev, Philipp M.: (1926-2018) A Russian physicist known for his theories on energy and alternative physics. Did not support the anti-reality of Relativity.
31. Kastler, Alfred: (1902-1984) A French physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on optical pumping and the study of atomic energy levels.
32. Kraus, John Daniel: (1910-2004) An American physicist and radio astronomer known for his pioneering work in radio astronomy and the design of radio telescopes.
33. Lallemand, André: (1904-1978) A French astronomer known for his work on photoelectric photometry and the development of electronic cameras for astronomical observations.
34. Larmor, Joseph: (1857-1942) An Irish physicist and mathematician who made important contributions to the understanding of electromagnetism, dynamics, and the theory of electrons.
35. Le Cornu, Léon: (1854-1941) A French mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics and mechanics.
36. Lenard, Philipp: (1862-1947) A German physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on cathode rays and the photoelectric effect, dismissive of Relativity and its lack of proof.
37. Le Roux, Jean: (1863-1949) A French mathematician known for his work in differential equations and mathematical analysis, who proved that Relativity’s maths are circular.
38. Levi-Civita, Tullio: (1873-1941) An Italian mathematician known for his work on tensor calculus which was applied to General Relativity, though he did not support Relativity.
39. Lodge, Oliver: (1851-1940) A British physicist and writer who did experiments to prove the aether, was involved in the development of radio and was also known for his interest in psychical research. Like Michelson and Lorentz, Lodge was never against Relativity per-se, but his own experiments and observations on the aether by default, disprove Relativity.
40. Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon: (1853-1928) Along with Lodge and Michelson, Lorentz is a slight exception within this list. Lorentz was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and the Lorentz transformations based on an immobile aether, used by Einstein. An immobile or absolute-aether cannot be ‘relative’ and this was rejected by Einstein. We could classify Lorentz as a member of the Relativity church, but his belief in an immobile aether and his equations which are based on the same, are incompatible with Einstein’s version of Relativity.
41. Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken: (1873-1962) An American philosopher and historian of ideas, known for his work on the history of philosophy and his criticism of the flawed philosophical foundations of Relativity.
42. Lynch, David K.: (born 1941) An American astronomer and geologist known for his work on atmospheric optics and the study of optical phenomena in nature. Criticised Relativity and the light invariance dogma.
43. Mach, Ernst: (1838-1916) An Austrian physicist and philosopher known for his contributions to mechanics, optics, and the philosophy of science, and for the concept of ‘Mach's principle’. Einstein was greatly influenced by Mach’s relativist philosophy, though Mach’s Relativity was very different than Einstein’s. It is fair to say that without Mach, Einstein would never have developed his theories.
44. MacMillan, William Duncan: (1871-1948) An American mathematician and astronomer known for his work on celestial mechanics and the theory of planetary motion, wrote major critiques against Einstein between the 1920s and 1960s.
45. Magie, William Francis: (1858-1943) An American physicist known for his work on the history of physics and his textbooks on the subject. Had little time for the arcana of Einstein.
46. McCausland, Ian: (born 1935) A British electrical engineer known for his work on electromagnetic theory and his critiques of relativity.
47. Michelson, Albert Abraham: (1852-1931) An American physicist and Nobel laureate known for his failure to find the Earth’s movement in space whilst proving an aether. Along with Lorentz, Michelson is also an exception within this list. He disproved Relativity but declined to criticise it. He and his partner Morley became Relativity supporters. This was most likely due to the awards which were proferred on Einstein’s devotees. In the case of Michelson, a Nobel prize. Michelson was a Copernican who was astonished at his own not-null results from his many light interferometer experiments from 1881-1929 (infering an aether wind). He could never bring himself to form the obvoius and logical conclusions from his own experiments.
48. Miller, Dayton Clarence: (1866-1941) An American physicist known for his work on acoustics and his 300.000 experiments on the aether drift, which disproved Relativity.
49. Mohorovičić, Andrija: (1857-1936) A Croatian seismologist known for his discovery of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, which marks the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle. Like Tesla he found Relativity very simplistic and unable to deal with electromagnetic reality.
50. Moon, Parry Hiram: (1898-1988) An American electrical engineer known for his work on lighting and colour theory, and his critiques of relativity.
51. More, Louis Trenchard: (1864-1944) An American physicist and philosopher known for his work on the history and philosophy of science, who saw through the illogical metaphysics of Einstein’s cult.
52. Moulton, Forest Ray: (1872-1952) An American astronomer and mathematician known for his work on celestial mechanics and the three-body problem.
53. Nordenson, Tryggve: (1876-1969) A Swedish physicist known for his work on electromagnetism and his critiques of relativity.
54. O'Rahilly, Alfred: (1884-1969) An Irish academic, writer, and politician known for his work on electromagnetism and his critiques of relativity.
55. Painlevé, Paul: (1863-1933) A French mathematician and politician known for his work on differential equations and his contributions to aviation, he highlighted the tautological errors within Relativity’s calculus.
56. Phipps, Thomas E., Jr.: (1914-2009) An American physicist known for his work on classical electrodynamics and his critiques of Relativity and quantum mechanics.
57. Picard, Charles Émile: (1856-1941) A French mathematician known for his work on analysis, differential equations, and the theory of functions. Uncovered tautologies within Relativity’s maths.
58. Planck, Max: (1858-1947) A German physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work on quantum theory, atomic and subatomic processes. Quantum theory disproves Relativity and Plancktons, named after Planck, also disprove Relativity.
59. Poincaré, Henri: (1854-1912) A French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher of science, who supported an immobile aether and was known for his contributions to differential equations, topology, and his criticisms of Relativity including its tautological tensor calculus.
60. Poor, Charles Lane: (1866-1951) An American astronomer and physicist known for his work on celestial mechanics and his critiques of Relativity regarding the fraudulent merger of space and time, and its incoherence on gravity.
61. Radakov, Victor Konstantinovich: (1932-2016) A Russian physicist known for his work on hydrodynamics and plasma physics which nullifies Relativity.
62. Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio: (1853-1925) An Italian mathematician known for his development of tensor calculus, which played a crucial role in Einstein's theory of general relativity, though he did not support Einstein’s mathematical interpretation or its applicability to phenomena.
63. Rutherford, Ernest: (1871-1937) A New Zealand-born British physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work on radioactivity and the atomic nucleus. The micro world of Rutherford, with its infinitely small molecules, is unexplained by Relativity.
64. Sagnac, Georges: (1869-1928) A French physicist known for the Sagnac effect, which disproved the invariance of light speed and proved an aether in 1913, nullifying Relativity.
65. Seeliger, Hugo von: (1849-1924) A German astronomer known for his work on stellar statistics and the theory of the zodiacal light which contradicts Einstein’s theories.
66. Selleri, Franco: (1936-2013) An Italian physicist known for his work on the foundations of quantum mechanics and his critiques of the Heisenberg-Copenhagen interpretation.
67. Soddy, Frederick: (1877-1956) A British radiochemist and Nobel laureate known for his work on radioactivity and the discovery of isotopes. Radiative-rich space propagated through a medium negates Relativity.
68. Stark, Johannes: (1874-1957) A German physicist and Nobel laureate known for his criticisms of Einstein, the Doppler effect in canal rays and the Stark effect.
69. Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943) A Croatian engineer and scientist, who in effect built AC electrification systems, developed advanced theories in electro-magnetism and had no time for the ‘mathematical garb’ of Relativity which was unproven and explained nothing.
70. Theimer, Otto: (1919-2001) An Austrian-American physicist known for his work on statistical mechanics and his critiques of Relativity.
71. Turner, Herbert Hall: (1861-1930) A British astronomer and seismologist known for his work on variable stars and his contributions to seismology, did not accept that Relativity described cosmic events.
72. van der Kamp, Peter: (1901-1995) A Dutch-American astronomer known for his claims of detecting extrasolar planets through astrometry, knew that Relativity explained nothing in the cosmos.
73. van der Waals, Johannes Diderik: (1837-1923) A Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids and a critique of Einstein’s ‘logic’.
74. Weyland, Paul: (1888-1972) A German physicist known for his critiques of Relativity which were never answered, which controverted the physical and philosophical foundations of Einstein’s theory.
The above are just a sample of those who either opposed Einstotle’s philosophy, or in the case of Michelson and some others who supported Relativity, disproved Relativity with their own experimentation! The declamations against the theology of Relativity cover the complete range of mathematics, physics, cosmology and philosophy.
There is a further list of 100 ‘authors’ and scientists including many not in the above list, who published a critique in 1930, castigating the absolute confusion and miasma that is Relativity (next post will discuss the ‘100’). Between these 2 lists we now have well over 150 well-known practitioners who were hardly ‘fringe’ characters or ‘conspiracy theorists’, neither were they rabid antisemites as is so often claimed by ‘The Science’. Many of them were Jewish.
Why Relativity?
If so many smart people opposed Einstotle, why was Relativity accepted?
In 1938, the Jewish-Polish scientist Leopold Infeld co-authored a book with the Einstotle, entitled The Evolution of Physics. Infeld simply believed that Relativity was true and the maths valid. About 10 years later, when applying Einstein’s formulas to the structure of the universe, Infeld was forced to concede:
“Einstein’s original ideas, as viewed from the perspective of our present day, are antiquated if not even wrong.”1
Even the Jewish Infeld, a friend of Einstein and ardent Relativist, knew that in 1948, Relativity was bunk and junk. Relativity explains nothing, it proves nothing, it is completely contrived. As Dingle complained, it is a mathematical-philosophical viewpoint, not a ‘science’. In nature, in reality, in real science, nothing is relative. There is always an absolute of something.
So why was, and why is, Relativity accepted?
First, Relativity as a paradigm was imposed, not validated through physical and experimental facts. As always, the role of the media and its fake news, was critical. Starting in 1919, with claims that Relativity explained light refraction around the Sun (a future post will discuss this fraud), the theory became conflated in the media and education systems with ‘The Science’ and only the stupid, the uninformed, the unsophisticated, the unenlightened opposed it. Unequivocal media and scientific journal support for Relativity was of course vital.
Second, ‘Relativity’ supports philosophical expectations namely, Copernicanism, materialism, naturalism and could explain with abstract maths, designed to shock and awe, why we can’t mechanically prove the movement or rotation of this planet.
Third, ‘Relativity’ was sold and marketed by vested interests who by 1930, constituted a sizeable and powerful industry, suffused with money and self-declared privilege. This is the real basis of a ‘paradigm’ - money, power, authority, and a self-confirming process using the media, education and awards systems. To be a member of the club, and partake in awards, money, power and privilege, you have to prove your credentials and bona fides.
Bottom Line
No one will be passed, granted a degree, published, offered a ‘professing-ship’ or tenure, or given that necessary-career-enhancing-grant, if they are too overtly a Relativity-‘denier’. Careers will be ended before they start. The list above is full of talented people, most of them unknown, rarely taught. Their crime? They criticized or physically disproved the great master philosopher, the Einstotle, and ‘Relativity’.
Hearken back to Copernicus the confused and his poorly built and unsubstantiated theory which was only published in the year he died (1543). Why? For the very good reason that Copernicus knew that opposition from academia, philosophers and the current estate of power and privilege would want nothing to do with his heliocentric ideas. It was not the Church he was worried about. It was the vested interests within the geocentric paradigm that were at issue for Copernicus.
The Church financed Copernicus and was fully supportive of the idea that the Earth moved and became closer to the heavens, as opposed to being near the material, and corrupted center or bottom of creation. It is an uninformed belief that the Church was opposed to heliocentricity on grounds of anthropic importance. The Church would want the Earth out of the corrupt centre and closer to the heavens. Not so those who benefitted from the geocentric paradigm. They would be opposed to the deconstruction of their power, their education, their very existence. Hence the nervous vacillations of Copernicus.
In one of history’s great ironies, ‘blindly’ following a philosopher (Aristotle) who proposed scientific theories, was one of the key criticisms that the ‘Enlightenment’ had against the medieval era. How is the servile adoration of Einstein’s philosophy any different? The age of Einstotle. Irony indeed.
As with Copernicus, so it goes with other ‘Kuhnian’ paradigms including ‘Relativity’. Using maths and poor philosophy to explain away thousands of light interference experiments and observations which found no movement of this planet but which did confirm an aether, is anti-science and irrelevant. It might take humans hundreds of years to first recognise the error of Relativity, and then to rediscover real science.
All hail.
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1 Leopold Infeld, “On the Structure of the Universe,” in Albert Einstein: Philosopher- Scientist, p. 477.
Our ignorance of the “vested interests” behind so many of our accepted dogma, scientific or otherwise, is shocking. Those behind such interests worked out long ago that as long as they remain invisible fingers can’t be pointed at them!
OMG. My old physics teacher never taught me that. great work, thanks.