PHD in Relativity Abandons Einstein Upon First Real World Application
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | PHD in Relativity Abandons Einstein Upon First Real World Application |
| Author(s) | Cynthia Kolb Whitney |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2020-04-08 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | special relativity, Sagnac effect |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"PHD in Relativity Abandons Einstein Upon First Real World Application" is an autobiographical article by Cynthia Kolb Whitney published on 8 April 2020 on Beyond Mainstream.
Whitney recounts the path that took her from a post-Sputnik high-school physics enthusiasm to MIT in 1959 — one of some twenty women in an entering class of over nine hundred — and on to a doctorate in special relativity. The account is offered as her personal explanation of how she came to stand apart from mainstream physics on special relativity, a position she reached through applying the theory rather than through opposing it beforehand.