Re: Can Our Observations Be Trusted?

<active4ce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "> It was Jan who mentioned Einstein. I have the greatest respect for
> > Einstein. During the time he devolped SR (1904 -1905) he helped with
> > his wife's experiment in physics.
>
> Huh? She was a mathematician."
>
> Yes, later. I got this totally wrong anyway, you can check Wikipedia on
> these two.
>
> Point was, he was probably not bad on the practical side of physics.

Certainly not. According to his director in Bern
he was the best patent examiner they ever had.
And there seems to be some evidence
that he may have helped inventors anonymously
by suggesting improvements to their designs.

And he does have an experimental effect to his name:
the Einstein-De Haas efect.

> Now the only support I have is that his first papers were up to speed
> on some of the latest phenomena observed, and the fact that he worked
> with and himself did patents.
>
> "> Some
> > patents were bought and led to a succesful series of refrigerators.
>
> No, it was a failure, both technically and commercially."
>
> No. The patents were bought, amongst others, by Electrolux since Platen
> and Munster had invented a similar design the same year. They produced
> that design instead.
>
> "> I was discussing Eddington. He was mostly bad on all of the above.
>
> You thought you would have done better?"
>
> That was not the point. And we have no meaningful way to know that,
> it's a useless question.

OK, it is obvious that we won't agree about Eddington.
But in your ad hominem you passsed over what he was talking about,

Jan

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