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Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner

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Hägar wrote:

> You have to give some credit to Einstein's Relativity...e=mc2 was a big
> money maker for all his friends helping him with his building an atomic
> bomb.

Einstein did _not_ build an atomic bomb; he urged Eisenhower in a letter to 
support the development of one (which led to the Manhattan Project in which 
Einstein did _not_ participate in any way), but only to have one to have a 
*strategic* advantage over *Nazi Germany*; not for using it against Germany 
(or its allies, in this case Japan).  Einstein was a pacifist at heart; he 
sought to achieve a balance of powers with this, having learned from his 
Hungarian colleague that Nazi Germany, through its then-recent conquests, 
would soon be able to complete the construction of an atomic bomb.  Later he 
was horrified that the atomic bomb not only was built but actually used, and 
regretted having written that letter.

That Einstein built or had helped building an atomic bomb is only what the 
“Starmaker” troll, that you have been feeding by crossposting across 4 
newsgroups *without* Followup-To, wants to believe or pretends to believe.

As for E = mc² (you cannot write it properly; do you even know what it means 
and where it comes from?), you could not have been writing this without it 
as everything in technology that enables you to submit postings depends on 
special relativity.  Starting with nuclear fission reactors that 
(unfortunately, but still) produce the majority of electricity required for 
computers in developed countries.  And even if you would depend solely on 
solar energy (which would be better), then you should be grateful to 
Einstein because he researched and explained the underlying photoelectric 
effect which started quantum mechanics (another set of theories without 
which there would be no microcomputers).

> He told everybody....patent everything.

He did _not_ do that *either*.  From which yellow press toilet seat do you 
get your "information" from?

F'up2 sci.physics.relativity

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Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-02 13:50 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-04 13:23 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-07 21:05 +0200
      Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-07 22:14 +0200
      Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 01:28 -0700
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner je suis charly <charlie-gordon1492@no.where> - 2016-06-08 01:46 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 12:46 -0700
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 09:25 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 10:19 -0700

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