Barack Obama didn't discover general relativity

Dozens of TV channels and internet servers, for example the Boston Channel, informed their audiences and readers about the following:

• Obama analyzed and integrated Einstein's theory of relativity, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, as well as the concept of curved space as an alternative to gravity, for a Law Review article that Tribe wrote titled, "The Curvature of Constitutional Space."

Well, I understand that certain activists are thrilled with the idea of a black president but I would recommend them not to write these articles that present Mr. Obama as a combination of Jesus Christ and Isaac Newton because they underestimate the intelligence of the Americans who will surely recognize that the information is nonsensical.

The reality is that the concept of curved space as an alternative to Newton's laws of gravity was discovered by Albert Einstein, not Barack Obama, and even the (scientifically meaningless) 1989 article "The Curvature of Constitutional Space" with 3 citations wasn't written by Barack Obama. Obama is one of six people - together with Prof Gerald Holton of Harvard University - who is being thanked in a footnote of this article written by Laurence Tribe.




You just can't say that Obama who is not a co-author has "integrated" these things as soon as such a misinformation becomes politically convenient. I urge Barack Obama to publicly correct this error.