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On Mar 20, 2:06 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 12:41 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems you can never define the silliest string theorist: there is
> > always a sillier one:
>
> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/03/23/sv_michiokaku.xml
> > "The importance Prof Kaku places on childishness in theoretical
> > physics extends to science fiction, and this, in part, is the subject
> > of his new book, Physics of the Impossible. It argues that because
> > there is no law of physics preventing the existence of concepts such
> > as time travel, teleportation and invisibility, physics has to take
> > their possibility seriously."
>
> Lubos Motl is definitely sillier than Professor Michio Kaku:
>
> http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/05/varying-speed-of-light-vsl-theories.html
> Motl: "The meter is moreover defined as 1/299,792,458 of a light
> second, so according to current definitions, a varying speed of light
> is simply a contradiction."
>
> String theorists are the silliest Einsteinians but extreme silliness
> can be found everywhere in Einstein criminal cult. Steve Carlip (who
> is not a string theorist) is just as silly as Lubos Motl:
>
> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/speed_of_light.html
> Steve Carlip: "Is c, the speed of light in vacuum, constant? At the
> 1983 Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures, the following SI
> (Systeme International) definition of the metre was adopted: The metre
> is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time
> interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. This defines the speed of light
> in vacuum to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s.  This provides a very short
> answer to the question "Is c constant": Yes, c is constant by
> definition!"

I was wrong: Brian Greene is not the silliest Einsteinian. Lubos Motl
and Steve Carlip are:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/12/lorentz-violation-and-deformed-special.html
Lubos Motl: "The second postulate of special relativity morally
follows from the first one once you promote the value of the speed of
light to a law of physics which is what Einstein did."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=706444693144627950&q=lubos+motl

Pentcho Valev
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