It takes a brave man to reject a scientific paper by Albert Einstein. But that’s what the physicist Howard Percy Robertson did in 1936, as editor of the journal Physical Review. Einstein was so enraged that he never published there again
If Einstein were alive today, he might thank Robertson, who saved the great scientist from retracting the most far-reaching prediction of his theory of relativity – the existence of gravitational waves. The first direct detection of Einstein’s waves was announced this week to much fanfare and celebration. Scientists say the waves emanated from the powerful collision of two black holes.
