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On Sep 18, 7:30 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Building beauty:
>
> http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/080616
> "Like bronze idols that are hollow inside, Einstein built a cluster of
> "Potemkin villages," which are false fronts with nothing behind them.
> Grigori Potemkin (17391791) was a general-field marshal, Russian
> statesman, and favorite of Empress Catherine the Great. He is alleged
> to have built facades of non-existent villages along desolate
> stretches of the Dnieper River to impress Catherine as she sailed to
> the Crimea in 1787. Actors posing as happy peasants stood in front of
> these pretty stage sets and waved to the pleased Empress. (...) The
> science establishment has a powerful romantic desire to believe in
> Einstein. Therefore, they are not only fooled by Einstein's tricks,
> they are prepared to defend his Potemkin villages. A Potemkin village
> is a pretty picture to fool the gullible romantic. Einstein was
> romantically infatuated with pretty pictures. He deliberately sought
> theories that were aesthetically beautiful in their harmony, symmetry,
> and simplicity. He romantically believed something akin to Keats'
> famous poetic summation: "Beauty is truth and truth, beauty."

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> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com


wrong,

relativity has no mathematical beauty whatsoever

i know a mathematical beauty when i see one