Quote:He got knocked back year after year (trying to get into university)
mellie: Evidently my suggestion that you should be cautious about making assertions on a subject on which you are almost entirely ignorant has fallen on deaf ears.
When Einstein took the Zurich Polytechnic entrance exams in 1895 he was only 16, two years younger than the normal age of entry. (He had to obtain a special dispensation from the Principal to take them.) Despite his age, his grades in physics and mathematics were so exceptional that the physics professor, Heinrich Weber, invited him to sit in on his second year class. But, having been out of the school system for some nine months because he followed his parents who had emigrated to Italy when his father's Munich firm went under, he failed in a number of other subjects. On the advice of the Principal he spent the next academic year at a Swiss cantonal school, at the end of which he gained high grades in all subjects except French. He sat for the Matura (university entrance level) exams, and was top of nine candidates, though he was still only 17, easily the youngest candidate. He did not have to retake the Zurich Polytechnic entrance exams again as he had his Matura. He entered the Polytechnic still only 17, a year younger than the normal minimum age.
Quote:Then, nothing! Other than expanding on other scientists theories, and coming up with a few out-there star-treck theories of his own... from 1905 to 1930 he just rewrote his same old patent-office relativity theory,(paraphrased it a few times)...expanded on someone else's discovery in 1921 then settled into scientific celebritism.
I've already told you that that is just ignorant nonsense.
Quote:He won a noble prize for his contributory services to theoretical Physics, this and his contributory services to "photoelectric effect", which had already been discovered by someone else , all he did was spit and polish it.
Ignorant nonsense again.
Quote:And even then, he only won the Nobel Prize in 1922, after the selection panel in 1921 decided none of the nominations (including his) met their criteria, as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel.
Yet more ignorant nonsense.
Quote:I think he had incredibly pushy parents, who just wouldn't accept the fact that their 34 year old son required velcro ties on his built-up sneakers...
His father died before he published the 1905 papers!
Time to give up. Exchanges with someone who knows zilch about the subject she is pontificating about are not very profitable.