Reply #62: He was viciously attacked for some time after

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and it is a well-chronicled matter of record.

There were, however, many who were still unconvinced in the scientific community. Their reasons varied, ranging from those who disagreed with Einstein's interpretations of the experiments to those who simply thought that life without an absolute frame of reference was intolerable. In Einstein's view, many of them simply could not understand the mathematics involved. Einstein's public fame which followed the 1919 eclipse created resentment among this faction, some of which would last well into the 1930s.

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