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dize his myth and lie more boldly. This
brazen lying has culminated in Time magazine
naming Einstein “The Person of the
Century” at the close of 1999. It may be
demonstrated that the lies have become
more bold with the passage of time because
Einstein was never named “Man of the
Year” while he was alive, but, over 40 years
after his death, he was named “Person of
the Century.”
But more interesting is the article by
Stephen Hawk ing which purports to be a
history of the theory of relativity. In it,
Hawking admits many of the things in this
article, such as the fact that Hilbert published
the general theory of relativity
before Einstein and that FitzGerald and
Lorentz deduced the concept of relativity
long before Einstein. Hawking also writes:
Einstein was deeply disturbed by the
work of Werner Heisenberg in Copen -
hagen, Paul Dirac in Cambridge and
Erwin Schrödinger in Zurich, who developed
a new picture of reality called
quantum mechanics. Einstein was horrified
by this. Most scientists, however,
accepted the validity of the new quantum
laws because they showed excellent
agreement with observations. They are
the basis of modern developments in
chemistry, molecular biology and electronics
and the foundation of the technology
that has transformed the world in
the past half-century.
This is all very true, yet the same magazine
credits Einstein with all of the modern
developments that Hawking names,
even through Einstein was so stupid as to
be vehemently against the most important
idea of modern science, just as he opposed
Schrödinger’s work, which was far ahead of
its time. The same magazine admits that
“success eluded” Einstein in the field of
explaining the contradictions between relativity
and quantum mechanics. Einstein,
who proves himself to be one of the least
intelligent of 20th-century scientists, re -
fused to believe in quantum theory.
If Time wanted to give the title to an
inventor or scientist, then the most obvious
choice would have been men like
Hilbert, Planck or Heisenberg. If they
wanted to give it to the scientist who most
fundamentally changed the landscape of
20th-century science, then the obvious
choice would be William Shockley. This
V.S. Herrell is pastor and bishop of the
Christian Separatist Church Society. He is
the author of more than 25 books and numerous
Christolo gical articles. Married to his
wife for 31 years, he is now a grandfather.
Einstein hobnobs with Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. In 1952, following
the death of Chaim Weizmann, Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the presidency of
Israel, but Einstein was unable to accept. This was probably just as well for the
Israelis, for had he done so, his new status as a political office holder would
probably have tarnished his invaluable role as an icon of science.
Nobel prize winning scientist invented the
transistor, which is the basis of all modern
electronic devices and computers, everything
from modern cars and telephones,
videocassette recorders and watches, to the
amazing computers which have allowed
inconceivable advances in all fields of science.
Without the transistor, all forms of
science today would be basically in the
same place that they were in the late
1940s.
His radical scientific and genetic views
led the establishment to financially destroy
Shock ley who founded the first company in
the Silicon Valley, his hometown, to develop
computer chips. The establishment hired
away his entire staff and used them to
start Fairchild Semiconductor, the company
that today is known as Intel.
After World War II, Einstein demonstrated
his dislike of the Germans in the
following statements. He was asked what
he thought about Germany and about reeducating
the Germans after the war and
said:
The nation has been on the decline
mentally and morally since 1870.
Behind the Nazi Party stands the
German people, who elected Hitler after
he had in his book and in his speeches
made his shameful intentions clear
beyond the possibility of misunderstanding.
The Germans can be killed or
constrained after the war, but they cannot
be re-educated to a democratic way
of thinking and acting. ❖
© 2001 CSCS
FOOTNOTES
1 Brownian motion is important because it
demonstrates the reality of molecules, chemical
particles, and the Brownian motion formula
allows one to calculate the number of molecules
per unit volume by measuring the distance
traveled by the visible particles and
determining the mean kinetic energy of the
particles involved.—Ed.
2 The general theory of relativity applied
the principles of relativity to the gravitational
pull of heavenly and other objects, and implied
that light rays appear to “bend” as they pass
near a massive object—not because the rays
actually bend, but because the fabric of space
itself is curved into some sort of “fourth dimension”
(disregarding the dimension of time) by
gravity, or because gravity itself consists of a
curvature in space, caused by the influence of
mass. Such is the current consensus among the
majority of scientists today.—Ed.