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Article #5427Re: EINSTEIN 1905 FALSE LIGHT POSTULATE SUBJECT TO NATURAL SELECTION
From: Androcles
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:49
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:49
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"xxein" <xxein@comcast.net> wrote in message news:1584838d-0503-436d-bab2-7cd988511498@c33g2000hsd.googlegroups.com... 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. xxein did it wrongly and came to wrong conclusions as a victim of what he doesn't properly understand of mathematics. Geez you stupid shit.
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