Einstein is considered the world’s greatest genius for creating the theory of relativity.
How Einstein Ruined Physics explains relativity, how it was discovered, and
how it fits into a long history of trying to understand motion and symmetry.
The book shows that Einstein’s role is badly misunderstood.
Modern physics books often describe a fantasy world that has less and less to do with
reality. They tell of alternate universes, cosmic singularities, and extra dimensions.
When they lack evidence for these ideas, they argue that they are
following Einstein's example and looking for the next revolution.
Einstein's example is detailed. He is famous for uniting space and time in the
theory of relativity, and for revolutionizing science with pure thought.
In fact, his famous
relativity paper merely postulated what had previously been proved, and he did not
even understand why space and time were being united. The essentials of relativity
are explained, along with how they were discovered.
The crucial ideas behind relativity are motion and symmetry, and these are the
most basic ideas in all of science. Relativity was the culmination of an ancient
quest to understand the motion of the Earth. The story takes us from ancient Greeks
like Aristotle, through medieval debates over Copernicus and Galileo, and up to
the modern search for dark matter and energy.
Somehow it has become fashionable in physics to try for some sort of abstract
Einsteinian revolution instead of explaining observable realities.
This book dispels the myths about physics progressing by pure thought,
and shows that following Einstein's dream is an entirely bad idea. Published by Dark Buzz.