Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-09
Einstein;s Theory Is All Wet, Says
Capt. See, Who Can't See Him atAH
BIZ SHERMAN MONTR0sE
NEA Service Writer

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. s-Prc-
lessor Albert Elnstein has won
world wide fame as originator OF
the theory Of relatively and Is now
paying California q visit which
many scientists insist Is a great
honor to the state, but California
has at least one distinguished star
gazer who has picked the moment
OF Einstein's visit to repeat what
he has often said before-namely
that Einstein Is completely and
everlastingly mistaken In practi-
cally all Of his theories and beliefs.
This dissenter Is Captain Thomas
Jefferson Jackson See-six feet and
four inches tall and 81 years old
former director Of the u. 8. naval
observatory at Mare Island, senior
mathematician for the u. s. navy
and soon TO take charge OF q gov
eminent observatory at Acapulco,
Peru.
"Einstein," says Capt. see. sis
neither astronomer. mathematician
nor physicist He Is q confusionist
The Einstein theory is n fallacy. II
Is based on a glazing error Of which
Einstein Is aware but which he re-
fuses 70 recognize. I know OF not
one truth In the whole mass OF
relatively literature, and thus. for
the good Of science, not a line OF 1t
should have been published.
1T has simply added to the dark
ness and confusion OF q superficial
and unthinking age. In which guam
tity production Of inferior literature
Is ~inturing the public mind.
Increased the Darkness
"Einstein Is shown TO have tink-
cred with Newton's law without
understanding it which thus in
creased the darkness Of this diff
cult subject, without adding . ray
Of light"
Having delivered this broadside.
Captain See goes on TO add 9 final
salvo:
The Einstein theory that the
ether does not exist and that Rrav-
ity Is not a force but a property OF
space can only be described as a
crazy vagary, . disgrace to our
age"
AS ii happens. Captain See does
not stand alone In his views. other
American and European scientists
have agreed with him. But thus far
Einstein himself has never taken
the trouble TO answer him. Elm
STEMS supporters have. but Elm
stein has simply ignored the naval
officer.
Captain See insists that Einstein
is perfectly aware OF the fallacy In
his theory Of relatively but won't
admit IL.
How About That Two.
He declares that there IS a rlar-
ing error In Einstein's formula for
the bending OF a ray OF light as IL
passes BY the sun. Einstein. saws
Captain See, careleSsly failed to
multiply his result BY two. and
therefore got only half the value
he should have got. And further
more. that h~alf-value itself was
not new; Captain See declares that
It was obtained by a DR.. SoIdner.
another German physicist, nearly
80 years ago.
As Captain See explains Il.
"EinStein began his calculations
BY ar erroneous differential equa-
tion for the bending OF the path OF
light. BY careless geometry he
omitted a multiplier, two. for the
angle. and hence when he inte-
grated COR rounded out and sum-
marized) the expression TO finish
his calculation Of the bending Of
the ray, he gets only half the value
required by correct physical math-
ematics.r
As far as Einstein's later theory
on the relation between gravity and
electricity is concerned. Captain See
says that he himself was a year
ahead az Einsten on this. To