[live+let_live]

I can’t say much either way about his theory. But you shouldn’t dismiss it just because of his resume. I believe thee was some young punk working for the patent office in Switzerland who came up with a theory that turned out to be pretty interesting.

[dr_who_2]

Quite a number of important “annus mirabilis” papers in fact, and each of them were quite a bit longer and more detailed than the above press release (along with the dissertation he apparently submitted to U Zurich the same year). Einstein may have been on the sidelines of certain physics cliques back then, but I think popular biographies of him tend to exaggerate how much that was the case. He wasn’t a popular guy initially in the academic community, but I doubt he was widely regarded as a crank either. A job at the patent office was probably a little more prestigious back then the more common but nevertheless comfy science career track that it is now.