We All Have Our Judiths

Like all good comedy, in my opinion, this made me laugh and then it made me go, "Hmmmm..." By Golly, he's right! What is up with that? Germany! Ya gotta give them props! They're like Lex Luthor. Or Moriarty. Or Reverse Flash. Or Voldemort. Or Hitler. Or Gargamel. Or Dr. Claw. Or Eric Cartman. Or Cancer. Or the Giant Chicken. Or even Satan himself.

They were bad. But they brought it! They had game! And if they hadn't hurt our heroes, made them feel hopeless and forced them to rise above that feeling, their heroism would have suffered. In some cases, been downgraded to ambiguity.

Don't just look at Hitler, look at Max Planck, Einstein, Haber, Benz, Heinrich Goebel, Wilhelm Rontgen, how about Charles M. Schultz? No, he wasn't born in Germany, but his Dad was, and ask yourself this: if not for Peanuts, would you recognize the name Manfred von Richtofen? I wouldn't. The Red Baron. He brought it too! 80 air combat victories! Unheard of! Add to that the countless times he shot Snoopy down. He was and is a national hero in Germany and was widely respected even by his enemies!

Then you look at all the scientific names I dropped. Rontgen, even though Edison never corrected anyone who said HE invented the x-ray, it was Rontgen. The light bulb is the same way. Edison didn't invent it. Not even close. But it's one of many things we don't exactly know who invented. Goebel is one of the inventors who may have. Like 25 years earlier than Edison. This we know because Edison decided to sue a few manufacturers who were making light bulbs like the ones he claimed to invent. The companies contested that Edison's patent was fraudulent because Goebel had invented the incandescent light bulb before him. Edison ended up, (somehow), winning the cases and getting even richer, but many still contend that Goebel legitimately invented the light bulbs Edison stole, then patented. Edison was a dick!

The car is another invention like this. It's hard to say exactly what a car is. There were steam powered automobiles in France before Karl Benz made his car. It certainly wasn't Henry Ford who invented the automobile though. That much is for sure. He didn't invent the production line either. That's just plain silly. But speaking of Germany... Ford was well loved by Germany. Ford motors powered their WWII army. He got a medal from Hitler. The highest honour a non-German could receive. He was the only foreigner mentioned in "Mein Kampf." I've even heard Hitler had a life sized portrait of Ford in his office. See? Zee Germans...

I'm looking forward to the upcoming movie about Nikola Tesla. Perhaps this will knock the falsely respected Thomas Edison down to his proper place as just one of these really bad people who bring out the best in the good people. He told the world direct current was superior and put up 50,000 dollars to anyone who could improve upon it. Tesla gave him alternating current. It was better. Edison basically said, "Aw, shucks, Tessie, old chap, I was just joshin' ya!" And, like so many other inventions he hijacked, went on to make loads of money from it while the REAL genius didn't. He never gave Tesla his 50 grand. And this is back when 50 grand was like a million. There's no telling how many inventions we'd have now if Edison was a man of his word! You know all those chords hanging off everything electric you own? Especially the snarl of them behind your computer table and your living room entertainment center. Tesla said he could eliminate them for everybody and I believe he could have. We will never know. You can thank Edison for THAT. For all we know he may have been a better invention suppressor than inventor.

Every time I think of Edison, I think of that song, "Judith," by A Perfect Circle. The first line is catchy: "You're such an inspiration for the ways that I'll never ever choose to be!" It's a song about someone named Judith who believes she is doing good when she's really doing bad. I suppose we all have our Judiths in this life and we can hate them and give up or we can use them as inspiration and heroically rise above. I believe that along with the arch-enemies, we need some heroes too. The negative inspiration is good, but we need to see people who have succeeded against these formidable foes. Come to think of it, every U.S. presidential campaign needs a theme song. How 'bout "Judith" for Her Strumphmeister, (Donaldo Trump)? I just can't take him seriously enough to write his proper name.

Fritz Haber, a brilliant mind reduced by the war to figuring out a better way to kill people. Haber's chlorine gas was just abominable! Yet his Nobel Prize winning method of producing nitrogen fertilizers is probably used for half the world's food production.

Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, also won a Nobel Prize for a theories on atoms and sub-atomic matter. He was a supporter of Einstein's theories of relativity. And, oh yeah, Einstein. This guy was a SUPERSTAR! Known all over the world. If you find any list of the most famous people in history, behind Jesus, Muhammed, Hitler and maybe Michael Jackson, Buddha or Muhammed Ali, you will find Einstein. Even more well known than Lady Diana, Marilyn Munroe, Ghandi, Elvis, Leonardo da Vinci or Newton, his own hero, Einstein was a regular phenomenon in his time!

But there is an awful lot we don't know about Einstein! Like many men, his public, sort of cleaned up, personna is what we all learn about in school. But did you know he didn't win his Nobel Prize for his general theory of relativity? No, that theory is just what made him a household name. He won it for something that he worked on years before he became famous, wasn't considered for the Nobel Prize, then after he became a superstar, it got the Nobel Prize. It was a paper on the "photoelectric effect" that he had written in 1905, 17 YEARS before he got his Nobel Prize in 1922.

Sort of like Leo winning the Oscar this year for like his ninth best movie role. The BEAR deserved an Oscar more than Leo. But the academy just figured the time had come to give such a famous actor an Oscar. That or it was the beard. Grow a beard, win an Oscar.

How about this: Einstein wasn't even responsible for the theory of relativity at all! It's pretty well accepted that Henri Poincare's work in that area was "borrowed," by Einstein and should have at least been footnoted. Many others can make that claim. But amongst them, science could find none with the package they were looking for, I suppose. Someone who LOOKED smart. Someone who had some character. Someone GERMAN!

There's a story of Nikola Tesla setting up an experiment in which he sent electrical, (of course), pulses over very long distances in opposite directions such that the ones going in the direction of the Earth's rotation should have shown an observable fraction of a second difference in speed from the ones going against it. There was no observable difference, which showed that these pulses were travelling faster than the agreed upon speed of light. Einstein was convinced. He actually gave a speeches in which he admitted his theory of relativity was wrong.

This was back around the turn of the 20th century when I believe the ruination of science began. When science chose the remarkably UN-scientific path it still follows today, in certain aspects of science. Like quantum theory. In fact there was a fellow named Lorentz who had great respect for Einstein's general theory of relativity, but preferred his own ether-based theory of electrons, which had the identical empirical consequences. Difference was it required an experimentally undetectable, "ether," as the carrier of the electromagnetic field. The math was the same, it was the philosophy that differed.

Einstein expressed his views on the emerging quantum theories of his time as "fashion," and even as a JOKE! Very much as the Emperor's new clothes.

"Einstein: A new fashion has arisen in physics, which declares that certain things cannot be observed and therefore should not be ascribed reality.
His friend Philipp Frank: But the fashion you speak of was invented by you in 1905!"
Einstein: A good joke should not be repeated too often."

But rather than admit the validity of Lorentz's (1904) theory as being more plausible, Einstein enjoyed his celebrity and got a huge kick out of Heisenberg and all ensuing scientific minds that contributed to the development of this false quantum theory.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Schwachkopfs!!! (idiots!)

Heisenberg wrote about a conversation with Einstein:

"Einstein: But you don't seriously believe that only observable quantities should be considered in a physical theory?!
Heisenberg: I thought that was the very idea that your relativity theory is based on!
E: Perhaps I used this kind of reasoning, but it is nonsense nevertheless. In reality the opposite is true: only the theory decides what can be observed."

Light, folks, is not made of particles, as Einstein incorrectly theorized and the whole world believes today, it is made of waves in an ether, which is what Lorentz believed and Tesla SHOWED Einstein. But this is contrary to the path of abject secularization science has long-since hacked out, to, I believe, its immeasurable detriment. A "boson" is a particle that has no mass, therefore should not be ascribed reality, yet passes through a field that is everywhere and by definition cannot, therefore, be passed through. Indeed the very idea of movement requires existence, which something without mass does not have, so the boson MOVING through anything is absurd. Then it pops into existence for an immeasurable amount of time, then pops out of existence when it leaves the unleavable field. We know this because we believe this. That is all. Science has even gone so far as to change the meanings of words. For instance, "theory." This stuff about bosons and a Higgs field is not just theory. It's the new and improved "scientifically PROVEN theory." Yes, scientific journals are actually printing this verbatim. Theories can now be proven. This is what I refer to when I speak of the ruination of science.

So this particle with no mass must be said to exist because science desperately needs it to exist or over 100 years of work and many, many Nobel prizes would be total fraud. THIS is what we are left with. It IS hilarious, isn't it? Or maybe, my mind just isn't sophisticated enough to appreciate the finery of Science's new clothes. Now you know why Einstein was always laughing.

The Ether, you see, sounds too much like God. But this weak borscht that Einstein and I find laughable, is, to most, an acceptably scientific sounding alternative, even though it's still all based on belief rather than that old school factual scientific tool called observation. Admittedly the Ether is unobservable, but it might have yielded much more beneficial results upon closer scientific scrutiny than the years and years of science fiction that are all founded upon the false theory of a smiling German scientist.

Is this a world war zee Germans have WON?