Theos-Talk Archives (September 2010 Message tt00026)

Thanks, Joe. I enjoy being ribbed. ;-)

Actually, I might have been Einstein's associate, more or less -- since I did ask him where the spiral on the toy my father gave me went into when you spun it clockwise, and where did it go out to when it spun counterclockwise.  He then boiled down his theory of relativity so he could explain how light spun in and out of the zero point due to the theory of relativity and gravity, which he also explained succinctly. Perhaps he incorporated that explanation in his final paper on light that later won him a Nobel. <grin> 

Actually, I think I also told him that just because light might bend as it passed by stars due to being pulled or pushed in by gravity, that didn't mean its maximum straightaway speed would change in a vacuum (which can't really exist on the physical plane), or that space actually bends.  All he did when I said that was grunt, "Yah, but that doesn't agree with the equations".   But, I guess he missed it when he wrote his early papers, even though HPB (I found out 30 year later) agreed with me, and some cutting edge science is now beginning to see, and may soon prove that Blavatsky was right that the universe was eternal and also cyclic -- as Einstein was initially right about his relativity theories, before he had to tweak his equations to make them fit in with the academic physics of that time that claimed the universe was still expanding and would ultimately slow down and collapse in on itself. (How else could he keep his job?)  

Later, however, he did admit that he was wrong when he talked about his "greatest blunder" referring to General Relativity theory. I don't know if I can take credit for changing his mind about fudging it with the Gravitational Constant, although that admission was not long after I met him. <grin>



Leon

On Aug 30, 2010, at 8/30/1010:35 PM, Joe wrote:

> In the midst of all of this digging on Einstein, I just ran across an item of curiosity.  Einstein had an associate, a professor Maurer, who was instrumental in designing the experiment which proved that gravity could bend light, thereby making the speed of light something less than constant.
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> Leon, a late happy birthday again, but why didn't you just tell us that you was an associate of Einstein?  <grins>
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> Joe

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