Dr. Carl Andrew Zapffe: Extraordinary Anti-Einsteinian
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Dr. Carl Andrew Zapffe: Extraordinary Anti-Einsteinian |
| Author(s) | Harry Hamlin Ricker |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-09-19 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | special relativity, Einstein |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Dr. Carl Andrew Zapffe: Extraordinary Anti-Einsteinian" is an article by Harry Hamlin Ricker published on 19 September 2019 on Beyond Mainstream.
Ricker's subject is a trained scientist who examined relativity closely, concluded Einstein had made a mistake, and felt obliged to say so. The article is less about the argument than about its reception: how a well-known author of relativity books dismissed Zapffe outright, and how NASA declined his proposal for an experiment that he held would settle the validity of relativity's foundations once and for all. Ricker recounts discovering Zapffe's annotations in second-hand relativity books bought in Rockville, Maryland.