Do physics professors still misunderstand Einstein?

[strangerep]

once again, never said ptolemy had an account of gravity. miss the point again. my mistake is assuming that a forum under the heading of physics means that sober intellectualism will pervade here.

Since you feel everyone is missing the point of your question, please re-state your question more carefully (hopefully taking into account of previous answers to re-word your question).

It is easy to assume your wording of a question is clear, yet it might not be clear to others, and/or their responses might not be clear/relevant to you. We're not telepaths.