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http://home.att.net/~numericana/fame/giants.htm
Giants  of  Science: Steven Weinberg, physicist   (1933-)

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/01/66393?currentPage=all
Giant of Science Steven Weinberg: "Worst of all would be to be without
Einstein's special theory of relativity; we would have no
understanding of elementary particles and the atomic nucleus."

What would happen if Dwarfs of Science like Jean Eisenstaedt manage to
prove that the speed of light does depend on the speed of the light
source? Would then any "understanding of elementary particles and the
atomic nucleus" disappear?

http://ustl1.univ-lille1.fr/culture/publication/lna/detail/lna40/pgs/4_5.pdf
Dwarf of Science Jean Eisenstaedt: "Il n'y a alors aucune raison
theorique a ce que la vitesse de la lumiere ne depende pas de la
vitesse de sa source ainsi que de celle de l'observateur terrestre ;
plus clairement encore, il n'y a pas de raison, dans le cadre de la
logique des Principia de Newton, pour que la lumiere se comporte
autrement - quant a sa trajectoire - qu'une particule materielle. Il
n'y a pas non plus de raison pour que la lumiere ne soit pas sensible
a la gravitation. Bref, pourquoi ne pas appliquer a la lumiere toute
la theorie newtonienne ? C'est en fait ce que font plusieurs
astronomes, opticiens, philosophes de la nature a la fin du XVIIIeme
siecle. Les resultats sont etonnants... et aujourd'hui nouveaux."

Translation from French: "Therefore there is no theoretical reason why
the speed of light should not depend on the speed of the source and
the speed of the terrestrial observer as well; even more clearly,
there is no reason, in the framework of the logic of Newton's
Principia, why light should behave, as far as its trajectory is
concerned, differently from a material particle. Neither is there any
reason why light should not be sensible to gravitation. Briefly, why
don't we apply the whole Newtonian theory to light? In fact, that is
what many astronomers, opticians, philosophers of nature did by the
end of 18th century. The results are surprising....and new nowadays."

Pentcho Valev
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