“Why no one believed Einstein”

“Why no one believed Einstein” August 20, 2016

 

Einstein and Chaplin
Albert Einstein with Charlie Chaplin at the 1931 Los Angeles premiere of the film “City Lights”
(Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

Very much like other disciplines involving humans, science is influenced by fashions, traditions, assumptions, and personalities.  The reception of Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity isn’t necessarily the best illustration of such influences, but it, too, plainly shows their effect:

 

http://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/

 

Posted from Oslo, Norway

 

 


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