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 Flawed Storytelling September 27, 2008
H. Arons
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
The author is a real raconteur, and he tells stories well. It's too bad, then, that he allows his puerile personal opinions to distract from the subject at hand, which is--after all--Einstein's mistakes.
Just tell the story, and keep all the claptrap about religious fundamentalists, the purity of science, the evils of creationism, and the like for your letters to the New York Times
 Finally... September 11, 2008
Michael Santomauro (New York, NY USA)
11 out of 24 found this review helpful
A book that explains the HYPE over one man...I have been saying this for years and very few people believed me!!!
Ask anyone where E=mc2 comes from and you will be told "Einstein." It is on T-shirts, public monuments and book covers -- The problem is that Einstein was not the first to discover the equation: It was known for several years before he presented it in his celebrated 1905 paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy-content?" Nor was the proof that he provided there complete.
Plus, there are flaws in Einstein's Principle of Equivalence (concerning gravity and acceleration), an important building block in the general theory of relativity. And there are errors in Einstein's effort to introduce a "cosmological constant" in his equations for space-time. The mathematical constant supposedly confirmed Einstein's belief that the universe was static.
THE UNIVERSE IS NOT STATIC!
But Einstein was.
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