You might be right. A 'patent clerk' assembling, collating various papers and crafting a simplified version of 'Relativity'. Out of nowhere by the 1920s he has his own well financed 'Institute'. I don't know much about his personal life other than he had 3 children from his first wife, 2 boys and 1 girl who either died young or was given to an orphanage. His second wife was his cousin (odd one that). Anyone can make up complex calculus. It takes coordinated marketing and money to sell it as gospel and truth.
Relativity is based only, and it should be emphasied, only on thought experiments. These fantasies like the photon clock are not real. Why engage in this? For the Einstotle it was maths uber alles. Thought 'experiments' is the only theoretically framework which can be used to dismiss the aether, the variance of light, and electro-magnetic effects we don't understand and reality. They are the abode of the magician and the corrupt.
You might be right. A 'patent clerk' assembling, collating various papers and crafting a simplified version of 'Relativity'. Out of nowhere by the 1920s he has his own well financed 'Institute'. I don't know much about his personal life other than he had 3 children from his first wife, 2 boys and 1 girl who either died young or was given to an orphanage. His second wife was his cousin (odd one that). Anyone can make up complex calculus. It takes coordinated marketing and money to sell it as gospel and truth.
Relativity is based only, and it should be emphasied, only on thought experiments. These fantasies like the photon clock are not real. Why engage in this? For the Einstotle it was maths uber alles. Thought 'experiments' is the only theoretically framework which can be used to dismiss the aether, the variance of light, and electro-magnetic effects we don't understand and reality. They are the abode of the magician and the corrupt.
Likely a similar story with Freud and Marx who were also perverts. Perhaps all blackmailed servants of the same someone.