Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955)
The founder of the
Church of Relativity
(in one of his better moments)

    Einstein intelligent? Surely you jest!

    Einstein is held in so high esteem by the mathematical physicists of the world that they have converted
    his name into a synonym of intelligence. To say that you are 'an Einstein' is to say that you are a very
    smart cookie.

    Actually, Einstein wasn't a very bright individual as you will discover in this site. However, not all is
    negative about him. In my humble opinion, Pastor Al made mostly negative contributions to science, the
    most damaging being that he misled several generations of researchers down a dead end and originated
    the 'relativistic philosophy' that pervades the young generation today. However, he also made some
    positive ones which I will give him posthumous credit for.


    1.   Einstein's negative contributions to science

    a.   Warped space


    " time can stretch or shrink
        matter and energy can change into each other
        time flows at different rates in different places
        light behaves as streams of particles
        a way of mathematical modelling the universe
        the nature of gravity
        many ways of measuring atomic size"

    It doesn't take an Einstein to realize that Einstein wasn't one. None of these issues have anything to do
    with Science let alone Physics:

    •        How can time stretch, shrink, or flow if it isn't a physical object?
    •        How can the abstract concept energy morph into matter or vice versa? What shape
    did it acquire? Can you draw a picture of energy for me to prove your theory?
    •        Almost every experiment ever carried out clearly demonstrates that light cannot
    possibly consist of particles.

    And so on.

    Einstein's most fundamental error was to toy around so much with thought experiments that he ended up
    believing that space is a physical object. He proposed that space is not only a medium, but that this 'thing'
    is also curved. Planets, stars, galaxies, and light roll or slide along the hanging hammock the mathema-
    ticians call warped space.

    These notions are so ludicrous that I can't help but smile. It is so palpably obvious that space is not a
    physical object that you wonder what nasty stuff the good pastor had running up his nose or through his
    veins. How can he be intelligent if he based his seminal theory on such a patently false premise?

    Just for starters, if space is a continuous physical object as Al proposed, we would have a tough time
    moving through it. Think of the resistance you encounter when you attempt to wade through an ocean. If
    space were an almost perfectly rigid object -- as relativity further proposes -- an astronaut would not be
    able to move through space at all.

    But let's look at a more fundamental conceptual problem that Al has on his hands with solid space.
    Relativity explains gravity with an analogy. Imagine a bowling ball weighing down the center of a
    trampoline and you release a golf ball. The golf ball will gravitate towards the bowling ball along the
    curved canvas. Unfortunately, Al and his disciples claim that space-time is also quantized, meaning that it
    is made of countless discrete points. Al is not describing a bowling ball weighing down a continuous
    canvas. He is describing a bowling ball stuck in a sandbox! When the bowling ball weighs one discrete
    point 'downwards' (whatever that means in the context of space-time) how does that grain of sand pull on
    the one next to it? Is there glue between Al's two grains? Yet everyone and his mother believes in warped
    space today.

    Einstein had to convert space into a physical object in order for his equations to make sense. If space is
    not a physical object, his entire physical interpretation for gravity disintegrates like a house of cards.
    Keep in mind that Einstein's novel physical interpretation is the main reason General Relativity displaced
    Newtonian Mechanics. If space is not a physical object, we either have to go back to Newton or erase the
    board and start over again.

    So who cares if Pastor Al modeled the Universe with a few variables and equations? What's this got to do
    with Science? Dear Al still cannot tell us what space is or looks like or how this Universe works (meaning,
    what causes it to work the way it does), which is the entire reason for Physics in the first place! Einstein
    offered a description like for example MOND is a description. Pastor Al failed to come up with a rational  
    explanation. A description alone does not constitute science. Science is about explanations (why as
    opposed to the how). Only when we can explain do we have genuine understanding. Anyone can
    describe without understanding, and this is what Al did all his life.


    b.   Relativistic philosophy

    Einstein's worst legacy is relativity philosophy, the widespread notion that everything is relative.

    " Everything's relative. Speed, mass, space and time are all subjective. Nor are age,
       motion or the wanderings of the planets measures that humans can agree on
       anymore; they can be judged only by the whim of the observer." [1]

    There are no laws or rules or anything you can sink your teeth into because someone always comes up
    with a loophole or a better mousetrap. So after 3000 years of research and intellectual progress we ended
    up with extreme skepticism, devil's advocacy for devil's advocacy's sake. No one wants to commit to a
    theory because it may be torn down tomorrow. Therefore, we don't know anything and everyone is free to
    believe in whatever they want and everyone is right. Things are so bad that the idiots of Special Relativity
    don't want to commit any more to whether the speed of light is the maximum speed limit of the Universe.
    They invoke this rule to explain Special Relativity and to boast about how great Einstein was, but when
    they leave the conference they quip that an experiment may yet prove Einstein wrong. Perhaps a  
    graviton, a tachyon, an atom, or a  tunneling wave packet travels faster.

    An even more appalling legacy left by Einstein's ridiculous philosophy many people hold that all theories
    are mortal. Therefore, these individuals are not interested in hearing or reading about ideas to reach some
    conclusion. They just want to hear delightful new ideas for the sake of novelty, or to be shocked by them
    just for the rush. They want to be surprised by new points of view, tickled by genius, tempted by the
    Devil's tricks. The new breeds don't want to know. They want to be entertained.

    The bottom line is that the relativistic philosopher will not commit to any theory. We have grown wise after
    all these years. Experience has shown that a new argument can always debunk the sacred one we just
    blindly defended. The purpose of Science is to keep searching eternally, not to find. The relativistic
    philosopher is not interested in information. He is fascinated by data. He draws no conclusions from what
    he hears or reads for fear that it will make him vulnerable in the debates. Maybe there is a point of view he
    hasn't heard of yet, so it is best not to commit. Only fools rush in. I'll play it safe. We don't really know do
    we? Maybe you're right, and maybe you aren't. Who knows? Relativistic philosophers are so subjective
    about even the pettiest things that they are unwilling to vouch even for the most obvious phenomena. Is
    gravity acting on you at this very moment? Well, I don't know. Maybe it is and maybe it ain't. It is
    impossible to carry out a rational conversation with such an idiot.

    So let's put the matter in such terms as to force the relativistic philosopher to choose. We sit the moron in
    an electric chair with one hand tied to a white button and the other to a black button. He will be fried within
    10 seconds unless he touches the white button. Will the relativistic philosopher now make the correct
    choice or will he continue to have doubts regarding the differences between black and white?

    The truth about relativity philosophy is that people have been bombarded with so many theories and
    counter-theories over the years that they don't know what to believe any more. It is this pussy-footing
    which is unnerving. If I bang Einstein over the head with this chair, does the chair really exist or was it just
    my opinion? Perhaps you may have doubts about whether the Earth goes around the Sun or about  
    whether π is a variable, but Father Universe and Mother Nature certainly do not. The Earth cannot be both
    flat and spherical. If it is spherical, all those who voted for the flat Earth are simply dead wrong. This is not
    a matter of opinion. The relativistic philosopher has not yet learned that he has already taken a position
    anyways! Relativity philosophy is wrong because it claims that there are no truths out there. Everything is
    reduced to a matter of opinion, to personal philosophy. Relativistic philosophy says that we will never
    discover anything because someone will always come up with a better argument, so why bother
    searching in the first place. We should just spend our lives listening to all the neat and weird little
    arguments people come up with and commit to none because the debate never ends.

    So what does this philosophy do to Science? If you happen to discover a genuine law of nature or you
    can finally explain a heretofore mystical paradox, no one will believe you. The relativistic philosopher
    holds as the only truth that everything is relative. Therefore, even a law of nature is just a matter of
    opinion. It's just your belief. You say it's black and I say it's white. We're both right. So on with the show.
    This is the philosophy that is taught in high schools and colleges around the world. Always be skeptical.
    Always carry with you a healthy dose of doubt.  Under any and all circumstances!  

    Actually relativistic philosophy doesn't say anything about the truth. It just says something about whether
    people believe in the correct theory. We may have already stumbled upon many truths, but it is relativistic
    philosophy which stands in the way of making the world conscious of them.


    2.   Positive contributions

    We have to give credit where credit is due. If Einstein deserves a scientific medal, it is for stoically
    standing against Quantum Mechanics until his death.

    " You are the only contemporary physicist, besides Laue, who sees that one
       cannot get around the assumption of reality — if only one is honest. Most of
       them simply do not see what sort of risky game they are playing with reality —
       reality as something independent of what is experimentally established." [2]

    " Einstein said that if quantum mechanics is right, then the word is crazy. Well,
       Einstein was right. The world is crazy." [3]

    Indeed, Einstein had become thoroughly disenchanted with Mathematical Physics as well, but his
    disciples downplay this as much as possible. Einstein never imagined in his youth that his thought
    experiments would end up distorting the minds of several generations of mathematicians to the point of
    lunacy.

    So he was taken off guard when he realized that the entire mathematical world kept getting crazier and
    crazier and further from answering the fundamental questions of Physics. When Quantum came along,
    Einstein could only treat it facetiously. He realized by then that the world had gone bananas. Specifically,
    Einstein refused to believe the Quantum idiocy that there were more than two forces in the Universe. His
    intuition told him that the two forces were electro-magnetism (light) and gravity.

    Of course, Einstein was right.  In the real world, we can only conceive of  push and pull. What other forms
    of physical contact can you imagine? The stupid morons known as particle physicists... you know... those
    respectable scholars that work at the accelerators... just had to invent two more. The lamebrains of the
    mathematical establishment claim that there are four forces: push, pull, maybe, and perhaps.  Einstein
    should be credited for exposing Quantum Mechanics for what it is: 100% bullshit.

    More absurd yet, a 'mechanic' (a fanatic of the religion of Quantum Mechanics) explains that particles carry
    forces like a horse carries hay on its back. A particle travels and 'unloads' the force upon contact with
    another particle. The mathematicians are saying that you carry your jump and dispense with it when you
    touch the ground again. This is the Ptolemaic explanation that the mechanics have concocted to account
    for the invisible mechanisms they 'observe' in the lab. This is what reliance on Mathematics leads to. The
    masses of mathematicians coming out of college don't even question this hogwash any more!

    The particle mathematicians of the world cannot possibly understand what they are talking about
    because they are strictly in the accounting business. Like Mary Poppins, they never explain anything. All
    that a mathematician ever does is describe and assign names and win Nobel Prizes in Mathematical
    Physics.

    Granted, Einstein wasn't the brightest of individuals, but he was unwilling to swallow such nonsense.
    Neither were Planck,  Schrödinger,  Michelson, and other more down-to-earth luminaries of the first
    quarter of the 20th Century. So Pastor Al decided to throw a nasty monkey wrench into the idiotic
    workings of Quantum Mechanics. Before he retired to Princeton and moved on to politics, Einstein
    conspired with two collaborators and devised the EPR thought experiment. Together with Young's slit
    experiment, EPR has caused a lot of grief in Mathematical Physics. From an 'entertainment' point of view
    at least, EPR is the most significant contribution ever made to Science. The EPR riddle compelled the
    numskulls of Quantum to come up with ever more ludicrous physical interpretations for this
    phenomenon, to wit:  hidden variables, many worlds, reverse time travel. It really doesn't get more
    amusing than this. What fun would we have in today's 'scientific' environment if it weren't for the idiotic
    explanations the mathematicians routinely come up with for the slit experiment and for EPR?


    3.0   A case of senility

    In 1919, after Eddington verified one of his predictions, Einstein proclaimed triumphantly: "Zee theory is
    korrrrrect." Of course, Einstein wasn’t as cocky towards the end of his life, writing to his friend Besso  
    that:

    "All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to
      the question, 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he
      knows it, but he is mistaken... I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based
      on the field concept, i.e., on continuous structures. In that case, nothing remains of my
      entire castle in the air, gravitation theory included, [and of] the rest of modern physics." [4]

    However,  the establishment downplays this turn of events by saying that it was Al’s fault for disregarding
    Quantum Mechanics and for insisting that there are only two forces. The general view is that Einstein was
    a great thinker in his youth, but that, unfortunately, he went a-whoring after false gods in his old age.

    Einstein was conscious of his increasing isolation:

    “ I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues… I am generally
       regarded as a sort of petrified object, rendered blind and deaf by the years.” [5]

    Today, most people are not particularly aware of Einstein’s fall from grace because his disciples
    downplay and more often misrepresent Einstein’s feverish anti-Quantum crusade. The important thing is
    to keep his name shining for all of eternity by sweeping under the rug the fact that Al abandoned the
    religion of Mathematical Physics towards the end of his life.  

    So how does the establishment explain away this imperfect aspect of their anointed messiah? How can Al
    be a hero on the one hand and be dead set against a fundamental pillar of modern Mathematical Physics
    on the other?

    Simple. His followers explain it as a case of senility. The official version is that, unfortunately, Al did not
    keep up with the literature and his brain withered away:

    “ This striking pattern of convergence, linking concepts once thought unrelated,
       inspired Einstein to dream of the next and possibly final move: merging gravity
       and electromagnetism into a single, overarching theory of nature's forces.
       In hindsight, there was almost no way he could have succeeded. He was barely
       aware that there were two other forces he was neglecting — the strong and weak
       forces acting within atomic nuclei. Furthermore, he willfully ignored quantum
       mechanics, the new theory of the microworld that was receiving voluminous
       experimental support, but whose probabilistic framework struck him as deeply
       misguided. Einstein stayed the course, but by his final years he had drifted to the
       fringe of a subject he had once dominated.” [6]

    [This is a gross misstatement and constitutes an attempt to mislead the public. Einstein
     did not ignore QM. Einstein was proactive about it. Make no mistake. Einstein believed
     QM to be absolute bullshit! He would have gotten rid of all of it!]

    The mainstream appreciates Al for what he published in 1905 and 1915, but after that he was just an old
    icon, a guy who warmed a seat at the conferences, a troublemaker. People simply didn't have the heart to
    put the old man in a retirement home where he belonged. (Of course, if you look at the picture at the top of
    this page again, you may be inclined to agree.)

    But changing history wasn't enough. Someone could by shear coincidence discover Einstein's true
    colors. So his disciples did one more thing to ensure success. They decided to punish Al for proposing
    EPR while at the same time being politically sensitive to his value as a holy icon. How else could they
    guarantee contributions from the flocks into the coffers of the Church of Relativity to fund their ever more
    expensive and idiotic research? The establishment decided to name Einstein Man of the Century, and this
    did the trick. Now everyone has what he wants. His disciples delivered Einstein nailed on the cross to the
    public, a martyr of Mathematical Physics. The layman doesn't even remember that Einstein was dead set
    against Quantum Mechanics in particular and against the idiocy of Mathematical Physics in general. Quite
    the contrary! And the congressmen continue to fund idiotic research such as Gravity Probe B (§ 3.0) and
    LIGO because the name of Einstein underwrites both.

    That's Pastor Al in a nutshell for you.

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