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On Mar 1, 9:51 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Astronomy/Cosmology/?view=usa&ci=9780195126648
> The Life of the Cosmos
> Lee Smolin
> "Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once
> elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed
> before....Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of
> physics, favoring those universes which best reproduce.....Offers an
> intriguing blend of the ideas of Einstein and Darwin. Argues that the
> laws of nature may themselves be subject to natural selection."
>
> In fact, Lee Smolin has initially discovered that Einstein's idiotic
> "law of nature" according to which the speed of light is constant does
> not allow Einstein zombie world to reproduce successfully anymore:
>
> http://edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin03/smolin03_index.html
> Lee Smolin: "Now, here is the really interesting part: Some of the
> effects predicted by the theory appear to be in conflict with one of
> the principles of Einstein's special theory of relativity, the theory
> that says that the speed of light is a universal constant. It's the
> same for all photons, and it is independent of the motion of the
> sender or observer. How is this possible, if that theory is itself
> based on the principles of relativity? The principle of the constancy
> of the speed of light is part of special relativity, but we quantized
> Einstein's general theory of relativity. Because Einstein's special
> theory is only a kind of approximation to his general theory, we can
> implement the principles of the latter but find modifications to the
> former. And this is what seems to be happening! So Gambini, Pullin,
> and others calculated how light travels in a quantum geometry and
> found that the theory predicts that the speed of light has a small
> dependence on energy. Photons of higher energy travel slightly slower
> than low-energy photons....A very exciting question we are now
> wrestling with is, How drastically shall we be forced to modify
> Einstein's special theory of relativity if the predicted effect is
> observed? The most severe possibility is that the principle of
> relativity simply fails....But there is another possibility. This is
> that the principle of relativity is preserved, but Einstein's special
> theory of relativity requires modification so as to allow photons to
> have a speed that depends on energy. The most shocking thing I have
> learned in the last year is that this is a real possibility. A photon
> can have an energy-dependent speed without violating the principle of
> relativity!"
>
> Fortunately, Smolin has also discovered that Einstein's 1905 false
> light postulate, like any other law of nature, is subject to natural
> selection. So a new species called "Einstein zombie world with
> variable speed of light" will emerge soon and this new species will
> reproduce so well that, in the struggle for survival, all other
> species will disappear forever.

Smolin has even discovered how exactly the speed of light differs from
what Einstein's false principle of constancy of the speed of light
predicts:

http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~colloq/Talk2006_smolin/smolin-oct06.pdf
Lee Smolin: Energy dependent speed of light. v=c(1 + a lp E + b lp^2
E^2 + ...)

Needless to say, in "Einstein zombie world with variable speed of
light" the Perimeter Institute can no longer be just "Ministry of
Silly Walks".  Rather, it will become "Ministry of Supersilly Walks":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com