Albert didn’t know much about plate tectonics either but he did agree with Hopgood’s bizarre theory on crustal displacement and even wrote the forward for Hopgood’s book.
Not relevant to anything really, just a little factoid I picked up from the History channel last night.
Thanks cripplecreek. It’s true that he wrote the foreword, but I believe (I could check, but I’m too lazy to go to the other side of the house before bedtime) Einstein merely thought crustal displacement more plausible than for the Earth’s axis to shift; that’s not a remarkable leap for Einstein to make, because crustal displacement is just a matter of scale different from plate tectonics — a revolution in geology (it sez here) that antedated Einstein’s death by about ten years. :’)