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David Evens <devens@technologist.com> wrote in message news:<fl4sn0p60jpvs9khnh4k2d1v0mqkvs8l9b@4ax.com>...
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:55:27 GMT, H@..(Henri Wilson) wrote:
> >On 22 Oct 2004 21:09:09 -0700, netspider4@lycos.com (Karl-Hugo Weesberg) wrote:
> >
> >>Sorry, but this theory is rubbish and must be replaced by a new,
> >>better theory or mankind is doomed!
> >
> >As far as I can see, Einstein's version of relativity was never taken seriously
> >outside of the USA and GB. It is a western hoax, perpetuated by generations of
> >academic inbreeding.
> >
> >Most physicists elsewhere still accept the Ritzian view that light speed is
> >source dependent. Accordingly, the universe is much easier to understand.
> 
> How would some like you, with no contact with the scientific
> community, and no knowledge of any language but English, know anything
> about what anyone outside the English-speaking world thinks about
> anything?

He is right and you are wrong, left with your ad hominen weapon. The
same was true with Newton's laws. British and Americans taught them as
empirical laws. Continental Europe taught them as axioms. As a matetr
of fact, anyone knows and admits today that Newton's law carry no
empirical content at all. They are just metaphysical statements. Read
and learn: (MO is in the USA)

http://www.drury.edu/ess/philsci/newton.html


Eveyone, I mean eveyone, outside USA and the UK, thinks SR and GR are
jokes. Well, SR is half joke, GR is paranoia at its best.

Mike