Heaviside was an opponent of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.Eves, Howard. (1988). Return to Mathematical Circles: A Fifth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes. PWS-Kent Publishing Company. p. 27. Mathematician Howard Eves has commented that Heaviside "was the only first-rate physicist at the time to impugn Einstein, and his invectives against relativity theory often bordered on the absurd".
