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Re: EINSTEIN 1905 FALSE LIGHT POSTULATE SUBJECT TO NATURAL SELECTION

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From: xxein
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:39
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On Mar 1, 2:51 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Astronomy/Cosmology/...
> 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.
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

xxein:  Smolin did it wrongly and came to wrong conclusions as a
victim of what he doesn't properly understand of the physic.  Anyone
and everyone does this.
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