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Einsteiniana's most recent camouflage of the falsehood of Einstein's
1905 light postulate:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090824115758.htm
"Despite the success of general relativity, one of the most important
problems in modern physics is finding a theory of quantum gravity that
reconciles the continuous nature of gravitational fields with the
inherent 'graininess' of quantum mechanics. Recently, Petr Hořava at
Lawrence Berkeley Lab proposed such a model for quantum gravity that
has received widespread interest, in no small part because it is one
of the few models that could be experimentally tested. In Hořava's
model, Lorentz symmetry, which says that physics is the same
regardless of the reference frame, is violated at small distance
scales, but remerges over longer distance scales."

Einsteiniana's new discovery that Lorentz symmetry "is violated at
small distance scales, but remerges over longer distance scales" may
allow Einsteinans to answer the existential question asked by Joao
Magueijo and John W. Moffat without damaging Divine Albert's Divine
Theory:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0705/0705.4507v1.pdf
Joao Magueijo and John W. Moffat: "The question is then: If Lorentz
invariance is broken, what happens to the speed of light? Given that
Lorentz invariance follows from two postulates -- (1) relativity of
observers in inertial frames of reference and (2) constancy of the
speed of light--it is clear that either or both of those principles
must be violated."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

On Aug 19 Pentcho Valev wrote:
> Philosophers of science have devised strange concepts such as
> verisimilitude (proximity to truth) and pessimistic induction (all
> theories in the past proved partially false so present and future
> theories are partially false as well) which contradict the deductive
> method. Consider Einstein's 1905 light postulate:
>
>http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/  "...light is
> always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c which is
> independent of the state of motion of the emitting body."
>
> By a theory I shall mean the deductive closure of the postulate, that
> is, the set of all its consequences deduced validly and in the absence
> of false or absurd auxiliary hypotheses. If the light postulate is
> true, then all its consequences are true.
>
> If Einstein's 1905 light postulate is false, then its antithesis, the
> equation c'=c+v given by Newton's emission theory of light, is true.
> Then the respective theory (the set of all consequences of the
> antithesis deduced validly and in the absence of false or absurd
> auxiliary hypotheses) is absolutely true in the sense that all its
> conclusions are true.
>
> Clearly if "theory" is properly defined the concepts of truth content
> and falsity content are irrelevant. Deductive theories are either
> absolutely true or absolutely false.