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It seems Einsteiniana's revolution involves abandoning Divine Albert's
Divine Theory and establishing a new, truly eternal this time, money-
spinner:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/oct/24/michael-green-new-lucasian-professor
Michael Green: Master of the universe. Michael Green is the new
Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge – following in the
footsteps of Newton and Hawking. (...) Furthermore, string theory,
Green contends, "isn't simply something that will, once tested, be
either verified or disproved. It's become much more than that".

By the way, why does any Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge
become "Master of the universe"?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/02/stephen.hawking
Master of his universe. When Rachel Cooke was granted an interview
with Stephen Hawking, she was told that he only had time to answer six
questions. So what would you ask the scientist with one of the most
acute brains of his generation? (...) The Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, where
Hawking is the Lucasian professor of mathematics, a post once held by
Isaac Newton... The two-part series Stephen Hawking: Master of the
Universe starts on Channel 4 on Monday 3 March

I think I know why Hawking is Master of the universe - he discovered
that Michelson and Morley refuted John Michell:

http://www.hawking.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=66
Stephen Hawking: "Interestingly enough, Laplace himself wrote a paper
in 1799 on how some stars could have a gravitational field so strong
that light could not escape, but would be dragged back onto the star.
He even calculated that a star of the same density as the Sun, but two
hundred and fifty times the size, would have this property. But
although Laplace may not have realised it, the same idea had been put
forward 16 years earlier by a Cambridge man, John Mitchell, in a paper
in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Both Mitchell
and Laplace thought of light as consisting of particles, rather like
cannon balls, that could be slowed down by gravity, and made to fall
back on the star. But a famous experiment, carried out by two
Americans, Michelson and Morley in 1887, showed that light always
travelled at a speed of one hundred and eighty six thousand miles a
second, no matter where it came from. How then could gravity slow down
light, and make it fall back."

Yet I have no idea why Michael Green is Master of the universe -
perhaps the enormous power automatically goes to any Lucasian
professor of mathematics at Cambridge, even if he had not discovered
that Michelson and Morley refuted John Michell.

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