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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sharad D. Tipnis
| alt = Sharad D. Tipnis
| fields = [[Relativity]]
| residence = Adarshnagar, Pune, India
| nationality = Indian
}}

'''Sharad D. Tipnis''' was an Indian critic of [[Albert Einstein]]'s theory of [[relativity]]. A retired bus mechanic for the Maharashtra state road transport bus company, he lived in Adarshnagar, [[Pune]], India, and devoted much of his life to attempting to disprove Einstein. He is the author of the 1985 book ''Einstein's Relativity: The Greatest Fallacy in the Twentieth Century''.

==Biography==

Tipnis worked as a bus mechanic for the state road transport company of Maharashtra, India, from which he retired. Outside of his employment he pursued an independent study of physics, focusing on what he regarded as errors in the theory of relativity. He was based in the Adarshnagar area of Pune.

==Scientific contributions==

Tipnis argued that Einstein's relativity was fundamentally mistaken, and in particular he maintained that light does not bend and that the mass–energy relation ''E'' = ''mc''<sup>2</sup> is incorrect. He set out these views in his 1985 book, published in Pune by Madhav Publications. These positions place his work outside the mainstream scientific consensus, which holds relativity to be well supported by experiment and observation.

A traveller who met Tipnis at a tea shop near Mahad, India, later recalled the encounter:

: "A Mr Sharad Tipnis, now retired bus mechanic for the Maharastra state bus company, who has devoted a good chunk of his life zealously trying to prove Einstein wrong. According to Mr Tipnis, light does NOT bend, his proof of which he set out in a book entitled "E does not equal MC squared". I have a copy, and frankly its all Dutch to me, but he was fairly convincing and enormously enthusiatic even at 7.30 in the morning in a chai shop near Mahad. Sadly I think someone has proved him empirically wrong in the last year or so." - Monali, India [http://www.indiamike.com/india/chai-and-chat-f73/admirable-indians-t4789/ http://www.indiamike.com/india/chai-and-chat-f73/admirable-indians-t4789/]

==Abstracts==

* 1987 - "[[Book Review: Einstein?s Relativity the Greatest Fallacy in the Twentieth Century]]"

==Books==

* 1985 - "[[Einstein's Relativity: The Greatest Fallacy in the Twentieth Century]]"

==External links==

* [http://www.indiamike.com/india/chai-and-chat-f73/admirable-indians-t4789/ IndiaMike discussion mentioning Sharad Tipnis]

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