ImagingGeek has a history of making stuff up. Here, is another example of him making up "facts"....Secondly, formulated peer-review was not the scientific norm (outside of medicine) until the 1930's.
This is so obviously false that the one can only laugh at the Geek.
For example, the 2nd oldest journal in existence, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, was authorized by its council, on 1 March 1664, with these words;
"Ordered, that the Philosophical Transactions, to be composed by Mr. [Henry] Oldenburg [one of the two Secretaries of the Society], be printed the first Monday of every month, if he have sufficient matter for it; and that the tract be licensed under the charter by the Council of the Society,
being first reviewed by some of the members of the same", Charles R. Weld, A History of the Royal Society (p. 68-9).
Peer-review has been the norm in mathematics and physics for centuries before the 1930's.I might add that Einstein never referenced any of those who published on Special Relativity before he did.
Einstein's infamous 1905 paper did not contain a single reference to any previous work (on Special Relativity).
His infamous 1905 paper was not even refereed, and this was for the simple reason, that there was no referee in the field that would allow Einstein to publish a paper that was just a gathering of ideas that had been published by other people, sometimes years before, without referencing them.There is a reason that the
Lorentz group of Special Relativity is not called the Einstein group of Special Relativity.
There is a reason that the
Poincare extension to the Lorentz group is not called the Einstein extension.
There is a reason that the
Fitzgerald contraction is not called the Einstein contraction.
All of Special Relativity was known years before Einstein's infamous 1905 paper.
Einstein was/is a total fraud.All you have to do is read the papers on Special Relativity that were published before Einstein's infamous 1905 paper,... some of them, like Larmor's, are even in English.
Here is a paper that is about Larmor's, earlier work on Special Relativity.
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:9560/larmor.pdfLarmor also published a book in 1900 that (among other things) deals with the (Fitzgerald) contraction of Special Relativity.
