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On Mar 26, 6:59 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Einsteinians continue hinting at the end of Einsteiniana but very
> carefully:
>
> http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/26-albert-einstein-rock-star
> DISCOVER: "It is possible to fix almost to the day the moment when
> Einstein became an icon. On November 6, 1919, he was still a private
> person. But that night, the Royal Society held a special meeting in
> London to announce the results of observations that seemed to confirm
> Einstein's theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity. As The
> Times of London reported in a headline the next day, the society
> concluded that the work amounted to a "Revolution in Science--New
> Theory of the Universe--Newton's Ideas Overthrown." Three days later,
> The New York Times picked the story up, blaring that there were
> "Lights All Askew in the Heavens...[the] stars [were] not where they
> seemed or were calculated to be." From there the word spread around
> the globe until, by the turn of the year, Albert Einstein had crossed
> the point of no return: He was and has remained public property. But
> that raises questions: Why him, why then, why still? Partly it was
> just that Einstein happened to photograph well."
>
> http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/20-things-you-didn.t-know-about-relativity
> DISCOVER: "Despite that, the early version of general relativity had a
> major error, a miscalculation of the amount a light beam would bend
> due to gravity. Fortunately, plans to test the theory during a solar
> eclipse in 1914 were scuttled by World War I. Had the experiment been
> conducted then, the error would have been exposed and Einstein would
> have been proved wrong. The eclipse experiment finally happened in
> 1919 (you're looking at it on this very page). Eminent British
> physicist Arthur Eddington declared general relativity
> a success, catapulting Einstein into fame and onto coffee mugs. In
> retrospect, it seems that Eddington fudged the results, throwing out
> photos that showed the "wrong" outcome. No wonder nobody noticed: At
> the time of Einstein's death in 1955, scientists still had almost no
> evidence of general relativity in action."

Hinting continues:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/01-has-the-einstein-revolution-gone-too-far
DISCOVER: "Has the Einstein Revolution Gone Too Far? Einstein ended
science's devotion to experience; it may now be time to come
back.....The constancy of the speed of light was right there on paper,
in James Clerk Maxwell's 1873 equations defining the relationship
between electricity and magnetism. Hence, Einstein postulated, the
constancy was right there in the universe, too. If the speed of light
is the same to all observers, he realized, then time and space must
stretch and compress so that no matter how you are moving, light's
behavior never appears to change. From that one insight sprang the
entire special theory of relativity."

Einstein zombie world should only realize that, according to Maxwell's
theory, the speed of light is not "the same to all observers"; rather,
it is variable and depends on the speed of the observer relative to
the aether.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com