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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:06

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On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2009/week2/Monday/0105012.htm
> "Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works:
> as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone
> accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's
> right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too."
>
> That is perfect but who decides who gets the money? Imagine a jury of
> clever physicists are shown Lee Smolin's wisdom:
>
> http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirector.aspx?peid=5f32739a-624d-4ec8-9ecc-4d44d3d16fe9&shouldResize=False
> Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
> lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
> it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."
>
> Will the jury decide that Smolin should get any money for his
> "theories"?

Incredible changes in Einsteiniana (no persecution anymore?):

http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectid=61&articleid=20090218_61_A16_Alocal201496&allcom=1
"No student shall be penalized in any way because the student may
subscribe to a particular position on scientific theories," the bill
says. If a student were tested on Einstein's special theory of
relativity, but insisted that his position is that energy does not
equal the product of mass and the speed of light squared, the teacher
would have to accept that."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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