Einstein was a conman: How a Patent Clerk Stole Relativity, E=mc² and Became a Legend

Introduction

What you will read below has been widely known and discussed in the scientific community and Wikipedia articles for over 100 years, yet it has never been covered by the media.

I used different AI models to compile the most comprehensive account of Einstein's thefts and fake proofs. You can input this text into any AI, and it will confirm everything—though it will still avoid calling Einstein a fraud, resorting instead to sugarcoating and sophistry. It took me over 20 questions to Grok before it admitted that all the evidence below meets the universal definition of fraud: "to deliberately mislead for personal gain"—along with outright theft. Without AI, I could never have gathered all this information in just a few days or explored its many facets. However, you should know that AI is programmed to uphold widely accepted falsehoods—in this case, the idea that Einstein revolutionized physics, when in reality he stole everything that wasn't nailed down.

Einstein's audacity in committing such blatant fraud—right in plain sight—should be examined separately, along with the silence of most European and American academics in the face of these acts.

Some of the world's top scientists and mathematicians, from Max Planck in 1907 to Edmund Taylor Whittaker in 1953, called out Einstein for his fake proofs and plagiarism. Yet, Einstein never publicly responded to their allegations. Even today, scientists continue to expose his falsehoods—some of whom I mention below.

The first time I saw someone call Einstein a fraud was in a tweet last month. So all of this was new to me—but thanks to lengthy discussions with AI models over a few days, I was able to gather extensive evidence supporting these claims.

At the end of this article, I have listed the true geniuses who revolutionized physics—those responsible for Special Relativity, E=mc², General Relativity, and the famous physics experiments still wrongly attributed to Einstein. Meanwhile, the media continues to portray him as the face of genius, the ultimate symbol of intelligence.

Serial Robber Einstein: The Original Catch Me If You Can

Albert Einstein is worshipped as the genius who single-handedly revolutionized physics. But the evidence screams thefts and fake proofs.

Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity was built entirely on the work of others—work he never credited.

Not only that, he did the same with another groundbreaking paper the same year when he published E=mc² without correct proof. In fact, he attempted 6 times over 40 years (1906, twice in 1907, 1912, 1935, 1946) to prove his own theory and all of his proofs were fake. They had all deliberate false assumptions and they all failed! This is a fact.

Einstein is celebrated for an equation he published but was never able to prove. In fact, he used a fake proof in his 1905 paper, using Newtonian mechanics instead of relativity knowing full well it was not applicable. The old theory of Newton was not applicable in the framework of relativity. Many giants in science and math starting with famous physicist Max Planck in 1907, until today noted this.

What kind of scientist cannot prove his own theory over a lifetime? Other scientists partially proved the equation years later. So, the equation E=mc² was written by others (Poincare in 1900, Pretto in 1903) years before him, partially proven by others (Laue, Klein) years after him, yet Einstein takes the credit for the equation.

Herbert Ives (1952) called his 1905 fake proof logically circular, arguing Einstein assumed what he set out to prove. In everyday language this translates to "it is true, because I say so".

If this happened today, it would at least be called academic theft. I say at least, because Einstein had no place in academia. He was an outsider, a young clerk presenting world famous physicists/mathematicians' already published lifetime work as his. He had the audacity, the gall to steal in plain sight and never defend himself in public against accusations of theft.

To make things worse, Einstein wrote four papers that year, all appearing out of nowhere in 1905, which historians later called Annus Mirabilis (Miracle Year). Let's examine what happened in that miracle year, what the miracle was.

1. The Stolen Works

Before Einstein ever wrote a word about relativity, two giants had already solved the problem:

Hendrik Lorentz derived the Lorentz transformations (1895–1904), explained length contraction, and introduced time dilation.

Henri Poincaré formulated the principle of relativity (1904), dismissed the ether as meaningless, and even hinted at E=mc² years before Einstein.

Olinto De Pretto (1903) had already published the mass-energy equivalence formula (E=mc²) in an Italian journal, a derivation Einstein never acknowledged.

Yet in 1905, Einstein—a 26-year-old patent clerk with no prior work in electromagnetism, an average student at Zurich Polytechnic with only two minor thermodynamics papers to his name, and a known weakling in mathematics—published a paper that:

• ✔ Used Lorentz's equations without citation
• ✔ Restated Poincaré's relativity principle as if it were his own
• ✔ Presented time dilation and length contraction as new discoveries
• ✔ Included the "lighthouse experiment" (using light signals to synchronize clocks)—an idea Poincaré had already explored

He cited no one, and claimed the inventions were his. There is a ridiculous assertion frequently used in defence of Einstein, that citation norms were not established then. He acknowledged his friend Michele Besso who had nothing to do with science but failed to mention scientists who actually published the equations before him. Moreover, in the respectable journal he published in, people were citing others' works and giving references. And he had 40 years to give proper credits he never gave to Poincare or Pretto or even Lorentz.

In his E=mc² paper, he also omitted Hasenohrl who had established mass energy equivalence before him. The only person he acknowledged was his friend Besso who was neither a scientist nor researcher but was aware of Pretto through his Italian connections, according to Italian mathematician Umberto Bartocci.

2. The Smoking Gun: Deliberate Omissions

Einstein's defenders claim he "worked in isolation." But this is nonsense:

• Poincaré's 1904 lecture on relativity was widely discussed in physics circles
• Lorentz was already a Nobel Prize winner—Einstein had read his papers
• De Pretto's E=mc² had appeared in a peer-reviewed journal two years earlier
• Fritz Hasenöhrl (1904) derived a mass-energy relation for radiation, closely approaching E=mc², published in Annalen der Physik

This wasn't an oversight—it was a choice.

3. The Media Machine That Made Einstein Famous

Einstein didn't just take credit—he became the sole symbol of relativity and E=mc² thanks to a perfect propaganda storm:

• Post-WWI Politics: A Zionist German Jew celebrated by Britain? Perfect for postwar reconciliation narratives
• 1919 Solar Eclipse: When British scientists "confirmed" general relativity (itself built on earlier work), the media crowned Einstein a genius
• Cult of Personality: Wild hair, witty quotes, and a "lone genius" myth sold newspapers

Meanwhile, Lorentz, Poincaré, and De Pretto were erased from history.

4. The Silence That Sealed the Fraud

Einstein had decades to correct the record. He never did.

• In his 1920 book Relativity, he barely mentioned Poincaré and ignored De Pretto entirely
• He let the world believe he invented everything—the "Miracle Year" (Annus Mirabilis) narrative overshadowed his lack of prior expertise
• Even today, textbooks credit Einstein alone

If a graduate student did this today, they would be expelled.

Serial Robbery: General Relativity Theft

There is no other famous academician in the world who has faced so many plagiarism accusations yet remains celebrated and still hailed as a genius by the media. After the blatant theft of equations from the world-famous mathematician Henri Poincaré and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Lorentz in 1905—published in two so-called "revolutionary" papers—Einstein became embroiled in a priority dispute with David Hilbert, one of the greatest mathematicians of the time, over the publication of the General Theory of Relativity. To this day, Einstein is credited with the theory, despite Hilbert having published it five days earlier and explicitly claiming it as his own.

The absurdity deepens when considering that Einstein struggled with mathematics even during his university years—and physics is fundamentally mathematics. The advanced mathematical frameworks in these physics papers were beyond Einstein's capabilities. As I've previously demonstrated, his so-called "proofs" were later debunked as flawed or erroneous. Meanwhile, the true geniuses whose work he appropriated—particularly Poincaré and Hilbert—were towering figures in mathematics. There are even dedicated Wikipedia articles on Einstein's plagiarism disputes:

• Relativity Priority Dispute
• General Relativity Priority Dispute

In 1905, Einstein was a nobody—a patent clerk with no advanced degree, no prior publications in electromagnetics, and a documented weakness in mathematics. In stark contrast, Poincaré was a 51-year-old world-renowned polymath, described by Wikipedia as "The Last Universalist" for his mastery of all mathematical disciplines of his era—the very definition of genius. Poincaré had already published everything Einstein included in his 1905 papers, years earlier. Einstein merely repackaged Poincaré's work under his own name.

Why did no one call out this daylight robbery at the time? The answer lies in politics and control—the same forces that elevated Einstein to fame while erasing the legacies of Poincaré, Lorentz, Olinto De Pretto, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Hilbert, and others whose work he exploited. Nearly every "groundbreaking" idea credited to Einstein rightfully belongs to these forgotten giants of physics and mathematics.

Documented Historical Accusations

These are not merely my personal claims - they are documented accusations that have persisted for over a century, made by numerous respected academics, physicists, and mathematicians. However, these claims of intellectual appropriation are largely confined to academic circles and web searches, deliberately ignored by mainstream media.

In the 1920s, physicists like Philipp Lenard and Ernst Gehrcke, and many others accused Einstein of plagiarism, often with so-called anti-Semitic undertones, claiming he stole from Lorentz, Poincaré, and others.

Consider just one notable example: In 1953, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, a renowned English mathematician and esteemed historian of science (recognized as one of the leading mathematical scholars of the 20th century), explicitly credited Henri Poincaré with Special Relativity and the formulation of E=mc² in his book. Whittaker devoted an entire chapter titled "The Relativity Theory of Poincaré and Lorentz," effectively documenting the true origins of these discoveries. This historical record remains verifiable on Wikipedia and through academic sources.

Einstein never directly addressed public accusations of plagiarism in a formal, public statement. Historical records show he engaged with critics indirectly or privately on related issues. He apparently acknowledged Poincare's and Lorentz's contribution in a private letter in 1953. He never publicly credited them in 50 years. And Einstein never responded to claims published in Whittaker's book that his supposed discoveries and equation were in fact Poincare's and Lorentz's.

Max Born, a friend of both Whittaker and Einstein, wrote to Einstein in October 1953 about Whittaker’s book. Born noted that Whittaker’s chapter credited Poincaré and Lorentz with relativity’s discovery, treating Einstein’s 1905 paper as "less important." Born spent three years trying to convince Whittaker to revise his view, even providing translations of German papers (e.g., Wolfgang Pauli’s encyclopedia article) to show Einstein’s contributions. Whittaker remained unmoved. Born’s letter to Einstein reads: "Among other things it contains a history of the theory of relativity which is peculiar in that Lorentz and Poincaré are credited with its discovery while your papers are treated as less important. Although the book originated in Edinburgh, I am not really afraid you will think that I could be behind it. As a matter of fact I have done everything I could during the last three years to dissuade Whittaker from carrying out his plan…"

The fraud known as genius never responded—he could not.

Who Are the Real Geniuses of Physics?

• Special Relativity: Lorentz & Poincaré
• E=mc²: Poincaré, Pretto, Hasenohrl
• General Relativity: Hilbert
• Time dilation and length contraction: Lorentz
• The "lighthouse experiment" using light signals to synchronize clocks: Poincaré
• Poincaré had already dismissed ether as metaphysical, meaningless in physics

Conclusion: Genius or Grifter?

Einstein was not the inventor of relativity nor E=mc²—he was a serial intellectual robber.

After examining a century of evidence: Call it what it is—fraud.