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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (32401)	12/8/2003 12:32:38 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

Einstein also said: The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources: OLINTO DE PRETTO AND E=MC2 In 1903, two years before Albert Einstein published his 1905 paper with the formula E=mc2, the formula was presented at a meeting of scientists in Italy by Olinto De Pretto, who discovered it. Recent research has shown that it is quite probable that Einstein was aware of De Pretto's work, since Einstein was fluent in Italian and studied the writings of contemporary Italian scientists. Largely because of this formula, Einstein is considered by some to be 'man of the century". Quoted below is a translated excerpt from the Italian magazine Gente, issue of Dec. 2, 1999, p. 82: "There can be no doubts, the proofs are incontestable", affirms professor Bartocci. "Olinto De Pretto put into writing the most famous formula of our century in 1903, in a work entitled Ipotese sell'etere nella vita dell'universo, which was officially presented on November 29 of that year to the Royal Scientific Institute of Veneto. The news did not pass unobserved, and aroused the interest of the great astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. The paper of Olinto De Pretto was included in a small volume on February 2 of the next year, 1904, with a preface by Schiaparelli, that was published by the Royal Institute..." "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources". Albert Einstein (quoted in Where Heavens Meet, by K.T. Frankovich).

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (32401)	12/8/2003 1:34:44 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

"no Einstein". Oh I believe Einstein was an Einstein. But that is not to say that his ideas were created ab ignito. As Newton would have said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" (for complications <g> see warble.com ) In that regard Einstein certainly built on the work of Lorentz. In fact, the equations of Special Relativity are usually referred to as the Lorentz Transformations. And Lorentz' work was stimulated by FitzGerald. ee.umd.edu What was radically different, was Einstein's perspective of what these equations meant. JMO lurqer