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On Mar 6, 12:09 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

Even Einsteinians in the journal Nature now know that Divine Albert's
Divine Theory is no longer the money-spinner it used to be:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7234/full/458030a.html
NATURE: "Historians showed that both the 1887 Michelson–Morley
experiment on light travel and Arthur Stanley Eddington's 1919 eclipse
observations, both said to provide key empirical support for
Einstein's theories, were actually open to a variety of
interpretations, even though the textbooks continued to offer myth-
like accounts of the experiments' decisiveness."

Why just "textbooks"? It is Nature's editor and fierce money-maker
Philip Ball who used to offer "myth-like accounts":

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070907/full/news070903-20.html
Philip Ball: "Arthur Eddington was innocent!"

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com