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George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive
logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of
thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."

Joao Magueijo, the official maverick in Einsteiniana, demonstrating
protective stupidity, that is, stopping short, as though by instinct,
at the threshold of the dangerous thought: "Einstein's 1905 light
postulate is false":

http://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Speed-Light-Speculation/dp/0738205257
Joao Magueijo: "A missile fired from a plane moves faster than one
fired from the ground because the plane's speed adds to the missile's
speed. If I throw something forward on a moving train, its speed with
respect to the platform is the speed of that object plus that of the
train. You might think that the same should happen to light: Light
flashed from a train should travel faster. However, what the Michelson-
Morley experiments showed was that this was not the case: Light always
moves stubbornly at the same speed. This means that if I take a light
ray and ask several observers moving with respect to each other to
measure the speed of this light ray, they will all agree on the same
apparent speed! Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity was in
part a response to this astonishing result.  What Einstein realized
was that if c did not change, then something else had to give. That
something was the idea of universal and unchanging space and time.
This is deeply, maddeningly counterintuitive. In our everyday lives,
space and time are perceived as rigid and universal. Instead, Einstein
conceived of space and time - space-time - as a thing that could flex
and change, expanding and shrinking according to the relative motions
of the observer and the thing observed. The only aspect of the
universe that didn't change was the speed of light. And ever since,
the constancy of the speed of light has been woven into the very
fabric of physics, into the way physics equations are written, even
into the notation used. Nowadays, to "vary" the speed of light is not
even a swear word: It is simply not present in the vocabulary of
physics. Hundreds of experiments have verified this basic tenet, and
the theory of relativity has become central to our understanding of
how the universe works. And my idea was exactly a "varying speed of
light" theory."

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