A Closer Look at Albert Einstein
by James Buchanan
For all our lives, we’ve been told by the mass media that the most brilliant scientist of all time was Albert Einstein. Ironically, the only serious criticism against Einstein to see the light of day was by feminists, who suggested that Einstein’s Serbian wife, Mileva Maric, may have written some of his greatest work.
Mileva was not especially attractive and suffered from a displaced hip and a limp, but Einstein latched onto her during his first year in the university. One website reports “He (Einstein) demands all her time. She sacrifices her studies as well as her friends. In the summer of 1900, they both fail their final exams. He somehow gets a diploma, but is one of the few graduates without a job waiting. While he looks for work, she supports him emotionally and financially.”
It is suspected that Mileva did much of the work on Einstein’s 1905 paper, for which Einstein received a Nobel Prize. If considerable plagiarism went into that paper, she would know all about it and be in a position to blackmail. The divorce agreement between Albert and Mileva was revealing. One website notes “In 1916, he (Einstein) demands a divorce, where Mileva breaks down and is hospitalized… The family feud finally ends, and Mileva agrees to a divorce, on the condition that any future Nobel Prize money will be hers. Oddly enough Albert agrees.”
Einstein only received his Nobel Prize seventeen years after his 1905 paper, which is strange at best. The Nobel Prize was not for the equation E=mc^2 which was originally published by Olinto De Pretto in 1903. The Nobel Prize was for Einstein’s alleged work on the photoelectric effect in which it was noted that light comes in discrete packets of energy called quanta. Einstein did not cite any references on his 1905 paper which even his supporters consider unusual. Did Einstein get no help from previous scientists before him or was he hiding his plagiarism?
The idea that electromagnetic radiation existed in discrete packets (or quanta) was first announced by Max Planck in 1900. Light energy is a subset of all electromagnetic radiation. All Einstein did was repeat what Planck had stated five years earlier. An impartial review committee at any Western university today would reject a ridiculous attempt by a third class patent clerk to get a paper published, which was nothing but a regurgitation of earlier work. Einstein not only got his paper published; he got a Nobel Prize for it and has been glorified as the most brilliant scientist in the 20th century.