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Androcles: So Einstein was a con artist.... (22-Nov-2001)

> "While I was thinking of this problem in my student years,
> I came to know the strange result of Michelson's
> experiment. Soon I came to the conclusion that our idea
> about the motion of the earth with respect to the ether is
> incorrect, if we admit Michelson's null result as a fact.
> This was the first path which led me to the special theory
> of relativity."
>
> ---Albert Einstein, "How I Created The Theory of
> Relativity", Speech at Kyoto University, Dec. 1922.
>
So the guy was a con artist....
Only the gullible would think otherwise.

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