is Albert Einstein real?

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At first, I used to admire him, because I did not understand his work, and he seemed to be quite a philosopher.
I have been able to trace most of his sources...big delusion... I don't see him as a genius anymore...

Did anyone ever get the feeling his fame was a little exaggerated?

If not, then I recently read a 700+-page biography of someone who didn't exist... Swiss records, German records, American, etc., can all account for his whereabouts; tens of thousands of people met him, etc.

His theories have been verified by mathemeticians since the very early 20th century. I don't understand them either, but word is, he's the real deal...

Is someone who plagiarizes and steals other people's ideas, passing them off as his own, real?

Like all real people he made mistakes.

He was on a roll- building the general theory of relativity.

Before he knew it- he realized his theory could predict the entire lifespan of the Universe!

All ya needed- was to know the initial mass of the univers- plug that figure into his newly minted equations- and viola!

The equations predicted that all of the matter in the universe would expand from a single point- would reach a maximum size- and then stop- and then would collapse. (how big and how long depended solely on how much mass of matter you started with).
But Einstien then wimped out. Everyone knew the Univers wasnt expanding - it just sat there timeless and eternal. So Einstein decided that this precursour of the "big bang theory" that naturally grew out of his own theory had to be wrong. So Einstein invented the "cosmological constant"- a kind mathmatical scaffolding stuck on his own theory to keep the universe the same size.

A few years later the astronomer Hubble discovered that all of the galaxies in the universe were red-shifted- therefore moving awayfrom each other- therefor- the Universe IS expanding!
So Einstien was like that lady who altered her lottery ticket to win 20 dollars- by defacing a ticket that was a real winner of the 5000 dollar jackpot! Even Tiger Woods scratches every now and then.

I believe Einstein was real, I am sure he wouldn't claim to be the most smartest person there is though

He was just a popular scientist

Here are a few links for those who want to read more, so they can comment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/nov/11/rorycarroll

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity ... ty_dispute

But it is maybe a bit complicated for those with no scientific background


"....Winterberg was also involved in a dispute relating to the history of general relativity in a controversy over the publication of the general relativity field equations (both Albert Einstein and David Hilbert had published them in a very short time span of one another). In 1997, Leo Corry, Jürgen Renn, and John Stachel published an article in Science entitled "Belated decision in the Hilbert-Einstein priority dispute", arguing that, after looking at the original proofs of the article by Hilbert, that they indicated that Hilbert had not anticipated Einstein's equations.

Winterberg published a refutation of these conclusions in 2004, observing that the galley proofs of Hilbert's articles had been tampered with — part of one page had been cut off. He argued that the removed part of the article contained the equations that Einstein later published and alleged that it was part of a "crude attempt by some unknown individual to falsify the historical record." He alleged that Science had refused to print the article and thus he was forced to publish it in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung. Winterberg's article argued that despite the missing part of the proofs, that the correct crucial Field Equation is still imbedded on other pages of the proofs, in various forms, including Hilbert's variational principle with correct Lagrangian from which the Field Equation is immediately derived. Winterberg presented his findings at the American Physical Society meeting in Tampa, Florida in April 2005...."

what makes a person intelligent?

Sorry...I didn't mean to impose on your argument...