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On Feb 3, 1:28 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Scientific/Courses/Special_Topics...
> The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
> Instructor: Lee Smolin
> Type: This is a University of Waterloo credit course. Students must
> register through UW. Dates: January - April 2008, each Wednesday from
> 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Perimeter Institute, Bob Room
> "Following this physical introduction we will read the key texts from
> the history of physics and philosophy concerning the meaning of time,
> such as Newton, Leibniz, Mach, Einstein etc."
>
> I suggest the following key texts from Einstein:
>
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
> Albert Einstein: "....light is always propagated in empty space with a
> definite velocity c which is independent of the state of motion of the
> emitting body......From this there ensues the following peculiar
> consequence. If at the points A and B of K there are stationary clocks
> which, viewed in the stationary system, are synchronous; and if the
> clock at A is moved with the velocity v along the line AB to B, then
> on its arrival at B the two clocks no longer synchronize, but the
> clock moved from A to B lags behind the other which has remained at B
> by tv^2/2c^2 (up to magnitudes of fourth and higher order), t being
> the time occupied in the journey from A to B. It is at once apparent
> that this result still holds good if the clock moves from A to B in
> any polygonal line, and also when the points A and B coincide. If we
> assume that the result proved for a polygonal line is also valid for a
> continuously curved line, we arrive at this result: If one of two
> synchronous clocks at A is moved in a closed curve with constant
> velocity until it returns to A, the journey lasting t seconds, then by
> the clock which has remained at rest the travelled clock on its
> arrival at A will be tv^2/2c^2 second slow."
>
> Albert Einstein: "If the speed of light is the least bit affected by
> the speed of the light source, then my whole theory of relativity and
> theory of gravity is false."
>
> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/pdf/files/975547d7-2d00-433a-b7e3-4a...
> Albert Einstein: "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot
> be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures.
> Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the
> theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary
> physics."
>
> And just a single key text from the martyr, Bryan Wallace:
>
> http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
> Bryan Wallace: "Einstein's special relativity theory with his second
> postulate that the speed of light in space is constant is the linchpin
> that holds the whole range of modern physics theories together.
> Shatter this postulate, and modern physics becomes an elaborate
> farce!....The speed of light is c+v."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com


Do you have something against Einstein?