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On Mar 4, 11:17 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Science like fierce money-making: as soon as Einsteinians realize
> Divine Albert's Divine Theory is no longer the money-spinner it used
> to be, they radically change allegiance:
>
> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0902/0902.4274v1.pdf
> Lee Smolin: "Time and symmetry in models of economic markets"
>
> http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_5.html
> John Baez: "On the one hand we have the Standard Model, which tries to
> explain all the forces except gravity, and takes quantum mechanics
> into account. On the other hand we have General Relativity, which
> tries to explain gravity, and does not take quantum mechanics into
> account. Both theories seem to be more or less on the right track but
> until we somehow fit them together, or completely discard one or both,
> our picture of the world will be deeply schizophrenic.....I realized I
> didn't have enough confidence in either theory to engage in these
> heated debates. I also realized that there were other questions to
> work on: questions where I could actually tell when I was on the right
> track, questions where researchers cooperate more and fight less. So,
> I eventually decided to quit working on quantum gravity."

Yes, Divine Albert's Divine Theory is no longer the money-spinner it
used to be:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=was-einstein-wrong-about-relativity
Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity
David Albert and Rivka Galchen: "The status of special relativity,
just more than a century after it was presented to the world, is
suddenly a radically open and rapidly developing question. This
situation has come about because physicists and philosophers have
finally followed through on the loose ends of Einstein's long-
neglected argument with quantum mechanics—an irony-laden further proof
of Einstein's genius. The diminished guru may very well have been
wrong just where we thought he was right and right just where we
thought he was wrong. We may, in fact, see the universe through a
glass not quite so darkly as has too long been insisted."

Curiously, Einsteinians are still claiming that special relativity is
based on two postulates. Then, if its status "is suddenly a radically
open and rapidly developing question", perhaps some postulate is under
suspicion? This must be a grand secret between Einsteinians.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com