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On Feb 7, 12:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A century of worshipping, singing "Divine Einstein", persecuting
> heretics, trapping long trains inside short tunnels, travelling into
> both the future and the past (without killing the grandmother),
> squeezing themselves through Kip Thorne's wormholes etc. Einsteinians
> did the job perfectly but now they feel humiliation and hatred:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Simultaneity-Routledge-Contemporary-Philosophy/dp/0415701740
> Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity (Routledge Studies in
> Contemporary Philosophy)
> Humiliated Einsteinians: "Unfortunately for Einstein's Special Theory,
> however, its epistemological and ontological assumptions are now seen
> to be questionable, unjustified, false, perhaps even illogical."

Humiliated Einsteinians are leaving the sinking ship (but hope to make
even more money as reborn):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5683551.ece
"Professor Stephen Hawking: Einstein had futile quest....PROFESSOR
Stephen Hawking is to publish a controversial new book suggesting
Albert Einstein’s lifelong search for a “theory of everything” was
probably a mistake....One of his previous books, A Brief History of
Time, became an international best-seller, and the new one is also
expected to sell well. Hawking said in a recent lecture, published on
his website, www.hawking.org. uk: "Some people will be very
disappointed if there is not an ultimate theory. I used to belong to
that camp, but I have changed my mind. I’m now glad that our search
for understanding will never come to an end."

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."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com