Scientists Against Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was very likely the greatest inventor of all time and certainly the greatest electrical engineer of all time. Tesla is most well known for his invention of the AC power distribution system that we still use today. However, he is also responsible for a variety of inventions and patents so wide he could easily be considered the single greatest contributer to the modern age of technology. Just a few of his inventions include the electric motor, radio and wireless communication, electronic logic, the discovery of X-rays, charged particle beams, the rotating magnetic field, fluorescent lighting, and the vertical take-off and landing concept. The undeniable link between electricity, magnetism and advanced physics concepts are well known to even laymen. While relativity is entirely for the purpose of explaining eletromagnetic phenomenon, Tesla, the wizard of electromagnetism who produced so many working useful concepts with his understanding, laughed at the ridiculous nature of Einstein’s relativity.

“Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.”

― Nikola Tesla, New York Times, 11 July 1935, page 23

“According to the relativists, space has a tendency to curvature owing to an inherent property or presence of celestial bodies. Granting a semblance of reality to this fantastic idea, it is still self-contradictory. Every action is accompanied by an equivalent reaction and the effects of the latter are directly opposite to those of the former. Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curvature of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies and, producing the opposite effects, straighten out the curves, Since action and reaction are coexistent, it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible. But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for them and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion.”

— Nikola Tesla, Prepared Statement of Nikola Tesla, 10 July, 1937


“But relativists now assert that “The dignity of pure theoretical speculation has been rehabilitated . . . based on a process of the mind with its own justification.” Relativity has saved science from narrow experimentalism, it has emphasized the part which beauty and simplicity must play in the formulation of theories of the physical world” (Mercier 1955).”

— G. Burniston Brown, What Is Wrong With Relativity?, Bulletin of The Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, March 1967

Brown is showing that the relativists claim that their theory needs no external confirmation, and that they rejoice in the fact that they do not need to rely on experiments to prove their positions. This agrees with what Nikola Tesla said:

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

— Nikola Tesla, Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934


Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) was an English physicist who won many awards, including the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. His research into radioactive emissions brought forth the notion of an atomic nucleus we know today. While at the Macdonald Laboratory in Montreal, he worked on a “disintegration theory” of radiation. Otto Hahn who later discovered atomic fission, worked under Rutherford at the Montreal Laboratory in 1905-06. By exposing nitrogen to radiation thereby transforming it to an oxygen isotope, he is known as the first person to deliberately transmute one element into another. As the leader of the Cavendish Laboratory, he inspired numerous other Nobel prizewinners to their achievements. C.D. Ellis, his co-author in 1919 and 1930, pointed out “that the majority of the experiments at the Cavendish were really started by Rutherford’s direct or indirect suggestion”. With awards and medals too numerous to mention; the progenitor of atomic physics he is truly a forefather of modern science.

“…genuine physicists were not impressed [with the theory of relativity]: they tended to agree with Rutherford. After [German physicist] Wilhelm Wien had tried to impress Rutherford with the splendours of relativity, without success, he exclaimed in despair “No Anglo-Saxon can understand relativity!” Rutherford guffawed and replied “No! they’ve got too much sense!”

— G. Burniston Brown, What Is Wrong With Relativity?, Bulletin of The Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, March 1967

“I once asked [Ernest] Rutherford — it was at the height of the popular interest in Einstein, in 1923 — what he thought of Einstein’s relativity. ‘Oh, that stuff!’ he said. ‘We never bother with that in our work!’”

— Steven Leacock, Common Sense and the Universe, The Atlantic, May 1942


Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931) was a German-born American physicist and the very first American Nobel prize winner (1907). He was also the pioneer of interferometry, which enables the precision guidance of modern weaponry. He received honorary science and law degrees from ten American and foreign universities. He was President of the American Physical Society (1900), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910-1911), and the National Academy of Sciences (1923-1927). He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Royal Society of London and the Optical Society, an Associate of l’Académie Française, and among the many awards he has received are the Matteucci Medal (Societá Italiana), 1904; Copley Medal (Royal Society), 1907; Elliot Cresson Medal (Franklin Institute), 1912; Draper Medal (National Academy of Sciences), 1916; Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) and the Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1923; and the Duddell Medal (Physical Society), 1929. Though his understanding and experience with the nature and manipulation of light has made vast contributions to our modern world, it is an unfortunate fact that his most widely known contribution to science is the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887. This experiment is heralded as one of the primary proofs of relativity, yet Michelson never believed relativity to be a tenable theory even to his death in 1931.


Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953) was The second American winner of the Nobel Prize (1923) for his “Oil Drop Experiment” which proved the elementary electronic charge. Millikan’s 1916 paper on the measurement of Planck’s constant was dramatic in its time but the interpretation was far from the quantum movement caused by relativity. The very first sentence of one of his 1916 papers was “Einstein’s photoelectric equation… cannot in my judgment be looked upon at present as resting upon any sort of a satisfactory theoretical foundation” What we now call the photon was, in Millikan’s view, “[a] bold, not to say reckless, hypothesis”.


Louis Essen (1908-1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was the inventor of the atomic clock and the man responsible for the modern precise measurement of the speed of light. This winner of multiple awards in physics also published a paper called “The Special Theory of Relativity: A Critical Analysis.” He was a member of the National Physical Laboratory of the UK, from which he retired in 1972 after being quietly warned not to continue his contradiction of Einstein’s theory of relativity.

“No one has attempted to refute my arguments [against Einstein’s relativity], but I was warned that if I persisted I was likely to spoil my career prospects.” . . . “The mistakes have been exposed in published criticisms of the theory but the criticisms have been almost completely ignored; and the continued acceptance and teaching of relativity hinders the development of a rational extension of electromagnetic theory.” . . . “Students are told that the theory [of relativity] must be accepted although they cannot expect to understand it. They are encouraged right at the beginning of their careers to forsake science in favour of dogma. The general public are misled into believing that science is a mysterious subject which can be understood by only a few exceptionally gifted mathematicians. Since the time of Einstein, and of one of his most ardent supporters Eddington, there has been a great increase in anti-rational thought and mysticism. The theory is so rigidly held that young scientists who have any regard for their careers dare not openly express their doubts.”

— Louis Essen, Relativity and Time Signals, Wireless World, October 1978


Herbert Ives (1882-1953) was an American scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first half of the twentieth century. He is responsible for the first transmission (1924) of pictures by wire, which resulted in first public demonstration (1927) of television, for which he was awarded the John Scott Medal in 1927. As the lead researcher of Bell Labs’ television development project, he is often known as the father of modern television. As an accomplished physicist, his knowledge and experience in the propagation of light has changed our world. He is also well known for his part in the Ives-Stillwell experiment, which is regularly listed as one of the proofs of relativity. He afterwards wrote numerous papers in peer reviewed journals against Einstein’s theory of relativity, and is said to be the most authoritative opponent of relativity in United States between the late 1930’s and the early 1950’s.


Ernst Mach (1838-1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. The namesake of the sound barrier, Einstein entitled him as the forerunner of relativity. Most of his studies in the field of experimental physics were devoted to interference, diffraction, polarization and refraction of light in different media under external influences. Though Einstein cited Mach as a source of ideas, Mach rejected Einstein’s relativity theory and asked not to be associated with the “dogmatic” and “paradoxical nonsense”, in spite of the fact that prominent German philosopher Joseph Petzoldt (1862-1929) sought to give Mach his due credit for major elements of the theory of relativity.


Ernst Gehrcke (1878-1960) was a German experimental physicist. He was director of the optical department at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute. He also sat on the board of trustees of the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory. He developed the Lummer–Gehrcke method in interferometry and the multiplex interferometric spectroscope for precision resolution of spectral-line structures. As an anti-relativist, he was a speaker at an event organized in 1920 by the Working Society of German Scientists. 

“…Gehrcke asserted that Einstein’s rise to fame was a “mass suggestion” fed by the insecurities of some of the authorities, and by the press, who would frequently misrepresent the facts, and misrepresented the views of many leading authorities, who were in reality mostly opposed to relativity theory. Gehrcke addressed Einstein to his face, in the Berlin Philharmonic, on August 24th 1920 . . . [and] effectively accused Einstein of plagiarizing the mathematical formalisms of Lorentz, the spacetime concepts of Palagyi, and the non-Euclidean Geometry of Varicak (his wife Maric would have been able to have read all of Varicak’s works); and of masking his plagiarism and the weaknesses of the theory with irrational metaphysics. Gehrcke stood up and declared that, “the Emperor has no clothes!””

— Christopher Jon Bjerknes, Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist (2002), pp. 206, 210


Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) was an English mathematician and physicist who invented a new technique for solving differential equations (equivalent to the Laplace transform), independently developed vector calculus, and rewrote Maxwell’s equations in the form commonly used today. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science. He said:

“I don’t find Einstein’s relativity agrees with me. It is the most unnatural and difficult to understand way of representing facts that could be thought of . . . And I really think that Einstein is a practical joker, pulling the legs of his enthusiastic followers, more Einsteinish than he.”

— quoted in Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist (2002) by Christopher Jon Bjerknes, page 169

“Classical relativity is true but Einsteinism is false, therefore, the term “relativity” should not be associated with Einsteinism. The modern perversion of true relativity should be labeled “Einsteinism” in order to avoid calumny against sane scientists and sound science, which deals with facts and not with mathematical fiction.” . . . Since Einsteinism was spun out of fictitious and inconsistent fibers, the entire fabric is filled with mutual contradictions. . . . Mutually contradictory laws are vitally essential in Einstein’s ridiculous structure. … All of Einstein’s problems can be solved without recourse to his fantastic mathematical speculations. Consequently, the argument that his theories are true because they are alleged to be unique, falls to the ground. . . . His entire structure is based, not upon facts, but on mathematical speculations which outdo the quibbles and sophistries of the unbridled Schoolmen.

— Dr. Arvid Reuterdahl, St. Paul Minnesota, Einsteinism: Its Fallacies And Frauds, from the book One Hundred Authors Against Einstein (1931), p. 40


“The theory of relativity is a mathematical masquerade, behind which there is an almost inextricable tangle of confusion of terms, contradictions, fallacies, arbitrary assumptions and disregard for sound logic. The world becomes one of an infinite number of possible coordinates in which not only all dynamics and causation, but also all actual physics, disappear. This world of relativity is a blown egg. The theory achieves its record with the relativization and reversibility of the terms before and after, cause and effect, and similar cinema jokes, which at least the benefit that they open the eyes of those who cannot find their way through all this chaos of thought.

What needs to be fought even more than this nonsensical theory itself is the audacity of a section of the press that goes to great lengths to trumpet such an unprecedented masterpiece of illogic as the worldview of the future, and to mislead the public by concealing that the opposition is far greater than the serious followers.”

— Dr. Erich Ruckhabe, Berlin Germany, The Complete Illogic of Relativity Theory, from the book One Hundred Authors Against Einstein (1931), pp. 48-49