Einstein didn't shoot down any of it, Relativity was pushed through him, that's all.
Now we have ideas like,
>You can't be goin faster than the speed of light eh
When no one is even able to define what the speed of light actually is or why
Maxwell
Ryder Ward
Mason Diaz
im not that guy but
>When no one is even able to define what the speed of light actually is or why
???? yes the speed of light has been experimentally confirmed numerous times
as for "why", the speed of light is what it is. that's like asking why we exist or why the permitivity of free space is what it is. it's a property of the universe. in what situation would you ever have an answer to that question?
Isaiah Adams
Sure, measured.
Now what is it and why are you alive?
The situation in which you want that question answered is when you break the speed of light or by pass it completely.
Mason Sanders
You need to ask if it even is free space that it's travelling through. Is light even able to travel through an absolute vacuum?
Carson Carter
>noriohayakawa.wordpress.com
I don't know if this is just more of the 'mythology' but I remember an anonymous source quoted in Nick Cook's 'The Hunt For Zero Point' (the pointless hunt) book saying that mainstream theoretical physicists had missed some 'nonlinearly' that exists and that this could be exploited to improve dynamics.
Ryder Gutierrez
* nonlinearity
James Parker
You may change your mind if you ever take a real physics course -- something a little more advanced than rolling balls down inclined planes or timing a pendulum.
Incidentally, he got the Nobel for the photoelectric effect because relativity was still controversial at the time. The Committee had been burned already; awarded prizes for work which turned out to be dead wrong.
Lightspeed is just a conversion factor between units of space and units of time. That's not Einstein's work. Minkowski made the connection and Einstein first dismissed it as "unnecessary mathematics" -- but Einstein could not have produced General Relativity later on without Minkowski's geometric reformulation.
Ah, yes. Still waiting for someone to rediscover The Bell or turn up evidence of the Nazi base (with working saucers) in Antarctica.
I keep meaning to watch youtu.be
Evan Hall
>Lightspeed is just a conversion factor between units of space and units of time
That's a bullshit answer that answers nothing.
I'm sick of this handwavy science that has bogged down on people in the past 100 years.
Grayson White
It works. And it's given the correct answers to every experimental test for 100 years now.
You don't like it, feel free to write something better.
Something which agrees with all known phenomena -- not something you whip out of your hyperspatial ass.
Stockholm awaits.
Kevin Rodriguez
If SR was awarded it would have been split 4 of more ways. GR three or more ways. Things that Einstein gets credit for he didn't come up with:
1. Simultaneity (Poincare)
2. Gravitational waves (Poincare )
3. Space-Time (Minkowski)
4. Gravity is curved space (Riemann)
5. Energy Mass equivalence (several people thought this right after Plank showed heat was discrete).
I have even heard normies give Einstein credit for the Lorens-Lorentz transformation, ignoring the name.
Einstein's work on SR was almost completely synthetic, and while it was great work, he should get only partial credit. He deserves more credit for GR, but still most of the"mind bending" ideas in it were proposed before.