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On Feb 1, 1:41 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.uni-koeln.de/minkowski/
> "Hermann Minkowski's famous lecture held in Cologne on September 21,
> 1908 was a milestone on the way to our modern understanding of space
> and time. In it Minkowski laid bare the mathematical core of the
> special theory of relativity - the unification of space and time into
> four-dimensional spacetime. Although at first sceptical, Einstein soon
> adopted this point of view and constructed with its help his theory of
> general relativity, in which gravitation is interpreted as a
> manifestation of spacetime geometry. The general theory of relativity
> provides the basis of our physical world view at the non-quantum
> level, and its applications range from cosmology to everyday life.
> However, modifications in our understanding of space and time are
> expected to emerge from a more fundamental theory that unifies
> gravitation with quantum theory; promising candidates are quantum
> general relativity and string theory. In the history of science,
> Minkowski's lecture can be interpreted as the end point of a
> development in geometry. It marks the transition from space as a
> unique concept in the sense of traditional Euclidean geometry to space
> as a model. In this new paradigm, many different spaces are
> considered, and the most appropriate one is selected. In our
> centennial conference, concepts of space and spacetime will be
> addressed from the points of views of physics, mathematics, and the
> history of science. We aim to do justice to Minkowski's great
> contribution. On the one hand, the historical development and in
> particular Minkowski's contribution will be discussed; on the other
> hand, we shall highlight the concept of spacetime in modern physics
> and mathematics as well as possible modifications in future theories,
> notably quantum gravity. The conference will be strongly
> interdisciplinary and should be attractive, in particular, for
> undergraduate and graduate students of the considered disciplines, but
> also for more senior scientists."
>
> http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/DepPhilo/walter/talks/2008esi.pdf
> Hermann Minkowski and The Scandal of Spacetime
> Scott Walter
> "Unlike Poincaré, Einstein famously excluded the ether from physics,
> and defined time and space coordinates in terms of ideal rods and
> clocks in inertial frames. I A clock transported with constant speed v
> around a closed curve would show a lag of 1/2t(v/c)^2 seconds with
> respect to a clock
> at rest, initially sychronized with the mobile clock. For Einstein,
> this was just another "peculiar consequence" of his kinematic
> assumptions, offering him no further insight to the theory of space
> and time (Einstein, 1905, p. 904)."
>
> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001661/
> Minkowski space-time: a glorious non-entity
> Brown, Harvey R. and Pooley, Oliver
>
> Those "scandal of spacetime", "glorious non-entity" and numerous hints
> at abandoning Minkowski's idiocy clearly show that now all
> Einsteinians know that Einstein's 1905 light postulate is false.
> However the 100 years old verbiage developed in Einstein criminal cult
> will continue to be perfect camouflage, perhaps forever.

Something tells me the "Beyond Einstein" program of Einsteiniana's
bosses:

http://www.beyond-einstein-2008.de/program.html

involves abandoning Einstein's 1905 false light postulate and
Minkowski's idiocy but in a way that will leave Einstein zombie world
even more confused. Let us see.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com