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Erroneous Science Unfortunately, the annals of mathematics and science are replete with erroneous claims and proofs for a variety of mental conundrums that have puzzled even the greatest of minds. For example, Leonhard Euler, the eighteenth century mathematician and arguably the greatest mathematician of all time claimed that there were no counting number (1, 2, 3, 4...) solutions to this particular fourth order equation:
w^4 = x^4 + y^4 + z^4
However, in 1988 an individual associated with Harvard University found a solution to the same equation. Despite his genius, the man known as 'analysis incarnate' and the father of 'e' as the base of the natural logarithm was proven wrong. Mathematics, science, reason and logic are no respecters of personages, lineage or even past accomplishments. Rather, only proof based upon known principles can confirm the legitimacy of a mathematical conjecture or scientific theory. With this in mind, one can firmly state that the core construction or edifice, if you prefer, of a modern scientific theory can not violate a first principle and maintain its estate over the scientific landscape.
But is our modern scientific world founded upon certain absolutes or theories which are unable to withstand the test of reason? When examined under close scrutiny do the ubiquitous theories of Evolution, Relativity and Socialism pass intellectual muster? These three were the main ingredients constituting that romantic elixir which enraptured twentieth century thought. But have these been accepted as absolutes because they are well founded and empirically demonstrable? Or have they been accepted because the 'scientifically correct' results obtained from these theories yield an emotionally or politically satisfying conclusion? These doctrines currently possess tremendous influence over the entire political, scientific, social and economic order of mankind. Yet few if any attempt to show the obvious contradictions in the tenets of this political and scientific order since to do so would invite career suicide. Ridicule and scorn are the daily wages for those who are bold enough to show the irreconcilable contradictions present within these theories. With this unfortunate condition in mind, it is time to venture forth and discover the nature of Relativity.
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