Also, Maxwell wasn’t a real person. He was just Faraday’s second personality. Faraday was driven mad by the power and fame he achieved, and created Maxwell as a psychological refuge from his torment. Maxwell represented Faraday’s inner-generalist, to counter his natural and highly observational approach to science.

In a bizarre twist of fate, however, Farraday was also a reincarnation of Leibniz, and so it ironically turns out that Einstein both did, and didn’t, plagiarise from Maxwell. Maxwell originally published Special Relativity, and Einstein copied it and republished it: plagiarism. However, they shared the same spirit and, since it’s ludicrous to suggest that one can self-plagiarise, Einstein had published the original paper ergo was not plagiarising.

These are just basic self-evident matters of fact, and if you can’t see that, then you’re clearly bending the facts to fit the theory.

The equivalence of potential and kinetic energy was long known*, which is the basis of e=mc2 (kinetic energy=1/2 mv2). Einstein provided the theoretical underpinning that demonstrated why that is so. (*prior to Einstein and de Pretto)

The story of de Pretto and Maxwell and others all coming up with similar ideas points to a larger interesting thing though: the concept that there are ideas whose time has come. This appears to happen frequently in history.

So, are you saying that Einstein wrote his paper by copying it from the Encyclopedia Britannica? And that no scientists who reviewed it noticed?

Your claim is pretty far fetched.

Einstein was upset for days because he was so distraught about all the lose of life from the atomic bombs.

General and special relativity has been proven many times! By many different sources.

You write: “..E=mc^2 has been thoroughly refuted..”

Nothing against you personally here.

The first point I’ll make is that you have black and white stated that you do not know the conclusion to the film. Despite this, you have taken it upon yourself to write that it has been thoroughly refuted. Sounds to me like someone writing conclusions for the whole world to see without taking the time to even watch one documentary.

The second point I’ll make is that E=mc^2 and the Special Theory of Relativity it comes from both have over 105 years of people observing it to be true. That is its backup. Have you ever come up with something which has been observed as accurate the world over by generations of people for 105 years – and counting? Have you ever come up with anything like that?

The third point I’ll make is to invite you to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. It’d take you *years* to count the number of people who died there in August 1945. Tell the relatives of those deceased that E=mc^2 has been thoroughly refuted. Don’t write back to me here. Catch a flight to Tokyo, Japan and then travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Find the relatives and tell them that E=mc^2 has been thoroughly refuted. No ifs. No buts. You have made the statement here to the entire world. Go and back it up in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Once you’ve done that, come back and tell me that E=mc^2 has been thoroughly refuted.

Tom.