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Re: Philosophical implications of Einsteinian physics
I thiink much of the philosophical implications of Einstein's physics had as much to do with religious views of the time and efforts by religious authorities. Since Einstein was so highly regarded for pure intellect, his views on topics other than Physics/ Relativity were giving much credibility. Efforts to pain him as a "believer' kept failing because he kept actively working to refute them. So there were efforts to minimalize his concepts of Relativity by religious authorities in order to reduce his effectivness in other philosophical areas.
This is best illustrated by comments made by religious authorities of the time:
Cardinal Connell of Boston wrote to Einstein and said: "The Theory of relativity is cloaked in the ghastly apparition of atheism...befogged speculation, producing universal doubt about God and His creation."
Einstein had to go so far at times to stop the continual effort to create the "believer" lable for him and he had to flatly call himself an Atheist at one point to stop the hedging effort when he used less forceful words.
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