Reminder that Einstein was never peer reviewed (except once by accident)

@pegobry

I'm genuinely trying to think of the last time a major breakthrough occurred like this. Best I can come up with was the discovery of how stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria rather than stress/etc in 1982, when a scientist swallowed H. pylori and gave himself ulcers to prove it

The whole, pure truth is so self evident that it doesn't need verification.

While Einstein didn't have his work reviewed before publication, he did distribute his work widely for review by leaders in his field. Max Planck was one of the first to recognize its significance and push for its acceptance among the wider Physics community.

@cartoonAttorney Wow and so true!

I can't think of a major scientific breakthrough in the past 40 years that came from the fringes though honestly. The best candidate was the "Emdrive/"Impossible Drive," reactionless propulsion generated via microwaves in a specially shaped tube, and that hasn't panned out

Being peer reviewed helps! Some patents are built on the first to publish as peer reviewed. My BS in Physics came from UCSB in 1985. In 1998 I submitted to SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics my first paper on the mass spin valve. In November 2022, I received my 4th patent on Gravitomagnetism. Device And Method to Generate and Apply Gravito-magnetic Energy

@SaveVidBot

Okay maybe you Carlos posters are onto something for once.