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http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2502/stories/20080201504304100.htm
Giant of Science Steven Weinberg's Brother Sheldon Lee Glashow: "Well,
there are no sacred cows in physics. Laws of physics such as
conservation of energy, or whatever, are made to be tested. There is
no guarantee that Lorentz invariance is an exact symmetry of nature.
That special relativity is precisely true. The attributes of special
relativity that have been tested best are the universality of the
speed of light - that is, the speed of light is the same in all
directions and it is the same to all uniformly moving observers - and
that the speed of light coincides with the maximum attainable velocity
of particles. Well, the VSR... the Very Special Relativity (which I
developed with Andrew Cohen) ... makes the hypothesis that is a little
bit weaker than Einstein's hypothesis. The hypothesis that we make is
simply that the velocity of light is the same for all uniformly moving
coordinate systems in all directions. That is not the same as Lorentz
invariance."

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0705/0705.4507v1.pdf
Dwarfs of Science Joao Magueijo and John W. Moffat: "The question is
then: If Lorentz invariance is broken, what happens to the speed of
light? Given that Lorentz invariance follows from two postulates --
(1) relativity of observers in inertial frames of reference and (2)
constancy of the speed of light--it is clear that either or both of
those principles must be violated."

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