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Seventh Next Einstein Lee Smolin, Fourth Next Einstein Giovanni
Amelino-Camelia and Former Next Einstein Joao Magueijo deeply
understand the falsehood of Einstein's principle of constancy of the
speed of light:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin03/smolin03_print.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.....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! This was understood a few years
ago by Amelino Camelia. I got involved in this issue through work I
did with Joao Magueijo, a very talented young cosmologist at Imperial
College, London. During the two years I spent working there, Joao kept
coming to me and bugging me with this problem.....These ideas all
seemed crazy to me, and for a long time I didn't get it. I was sure it
was wrong! But Joao kept bugging me and slowly I realized that they
had a point. We have since written several papers together showing how
Einstein's postulates may be modified to give a new version of special
relativity in which the speed of light can depend on energy."

Since Second Next Einstein Stephen Hawking deeply understands the
Michelson-Morley experiment, he has received the Michelson-Morley
Award:

http://admission.case.edu/admissions/news/news_story.asp?iNewsID=243&strBack=%2Fadmissions%2Fnews%2Fnews_archive.asp
"While in Cleveland, Hawking will receive the Michelson-Morley Award
for his outstanding contributions to science. The Michelson-Morley
experiment took place at the Case Institute of Technology in 1887,
where Albert Michelson and Edward Morley proved that the speed of
light is constant, independent by its direction or the speed of its
source, discoveries later reflected in Albert Einstein's theory of
relativity."

Einsteinian John Norton does not understand the Michelson-Morley
experiment so deeply and for that reason he will NEVER be Next
Einstein and will NEVER be given the Michelson-Morley Award:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as
evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost
universally use it as support for the light postulate of special
relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE
WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT
POSTULATE."

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