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On Jan 8, 4:58 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Smolin Smolin silly string theorists still do not know that Einstein's
> 1905 light postulate is false and a painful internal struggle may
> destroy them some day:
>
> http://www.geekitude.com/gl/public_html/article.php?story=20050422141509987
> Brian Greene: "I certainly got very used to the idea of relativity,
> and therefore I can go into that frame of mind without it seeming like
> an effort. But I feel and think about the world as being organized
> into past, present and future. I feel that the only moment in time
> that's really real is this moment right now. And I feel [that what
> happened a few moments ago] is gone, and the future is yet to be. It
> still feels right to me. But I know in my mind intellectually that's
> wrong. Relativity establishes that that picture of the universe is
> wrong, and if I work hard, I can force myself to recognize the fallacy
> in my view or thinking; but intuitively it's still what I feel. So
> it's a daily struggle to keep in mind how the world works, and
> juxtapose that with experience that [I get] a thousand, even million
> times a day from ordinary comings and goings."
>
> Quantum gravity theorists do not suffer from any internal struggle do
> they Smolin Smolin. All of them have read George Orwell:
>
> http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/George Orwell "1984":
> "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
> you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make
> that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
> Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
> external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy
> of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that
> they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be
> right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or
> that the force ofgravityworks? Or that the past is unchangeable? If
> both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if
> the mind itself is controllable what then?"

It seems there can be nothing sillier in Einstein criminal cult than a
string theorist:

http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=989
Q: "You say that a particle on one side of the universe can influence
the action of a sister particle on the other side of the universe
instantaneously. Does this violate Einstein's statement that nothing
can travel faster than the speed of light?"

Brian Greene: "It is a delicate question, but most physicists would
say no. The influence is such that no information can be sent from
place to place at faster than light speed, and many believe that's
enough to avoid conflict with Einstein's recognition that light sets a
cosmic speed limit. I am among those who take this point of view, but
as I stress in the book, this issue--due to remaining conundrums
surrounding quantum mechanics--is not fully settled."

Pentcho Valev
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