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Article #353THE PROBLEM WITH THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ALLIANCE
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:27
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:27
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/06/prweb4083874.htm "A day of scientific inquiry and challenges to such theories as Einstein's theory of relativity, the Bernoulli Effect, and plate tectonics are offered for public scrutiny for the first time by the Natural Philosophy Alliance, a worldwide scientific organization." http://www.worldnpa.org/main/ "The Natural Philosophy Alliance, quite unlike establishment physics, does not impose any particular ideas on its members, whose ideas are so diverse that generalization about them is very difficult. Aside from virtually unanimous agreement that contemporary cosmology and physics--especially modern or 20th-century physics--are in dire need of a thorough overhaul, and that a much more tolerant spirit than has recently been shown in these fields must be practiced in order to achieve the needed changes, not very much comes close to achieving unanimous approval among NPA members. Nevertheless, certain interests and themes are very widespread, and certain opinions are subscribed to by a very large majority. The central theme that concerns nearly all members, both because of its highly honored position in current dogma and because its rather simple mathematics makes it comparatively easy to deal with, is special relativity (SR). A very large majority in the NPA believe it is seriously flawed, and a clear majority believe it is totally invalid. I earnestly subscribe to the latter view: SR has no validity whatsoever." (By NPA Founder, John E. Chappell) The Natural Philosophy Alliance should adopt a more concrete stance on special relativity. This theory is strictly deductive so it can only have "no validity whatsoever" IF A POSTULATE IS FALSE. Ironically, some Einsteinians are more advanced than NPA members in identifying the false postulate: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/31/science/e-and-mc2-equality-it-seems-is-relative.html "As propounded by Einstein as an audaciously confident young patent clerk in 1905, relativity declares that the laws of physics, and in particular the speed of light -- 186,000 miles per second -- are the same no matter where you are or how fast you are moving. Generations of students and philosophers have struggled with the paradoxical consequences of Einstein's deceptively simple notion, which underlies all of modern physics and technology, wrestling with clocks that speed up and slow down, yardsticks that contract and expand and bad jokes using the word "relative."......"Perhaps relativity is too restrictive for what we need in quantum gravity," Dr. Magueijo said. "We need to drop a postulate, perhaps the constancy of the speed of light." Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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