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Fattest rats are also trying to leave the sinking ship:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts
"A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned that the laws
thought to govern the universe, including Albert Einstein's theory of
relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which includes Professor
Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, say such
laws may only work for our universe but not in others that are now
also thought to exist.....AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION IS
EINSTEIN'S BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME -
186,000 miles a second in a vacuum.....Rees, Hawking and others are so
concerned at the impact of such ideas that they recently organised a
private conference in Cambridge for more than 30 leading
cosmologists."

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=27&ContentID=52711
"Professor Stephen Hawking says he is involved in work which "with
luck" will answer "some of the ultimate questions". Much of the work
is centred at Cambridge University's new Centre for Theoretical
Cosmology. (....) "We are now working on the unification of Einstein's
General Theory of Relativity, which governs the large-scale structure
of the universe, with Quantum Theory, the theory of the very small.
"This unification should determine what happened in the Big Bang and
how the universe began." He added: "The centre will work to develop
theories of the universe which are both mathematically consistent and
observationally testable. "IT WILL BUILD ON A TRADITION DATING BACK TO
ISAAC NEWTON OVER THREE CENTURIES AGO."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2005/01/26/ecrein26.xml
Martin Rees: "Einstein's great work was over well before he was 40.
Photos from that time show him as a nattily dressed young professor,
though we're more familiar with the image of the old Einstein - the
benign and unkempt sage of poster and T-shirt. But Einstein didn't
rest on his laurels in old age: he worked till his dying day seeking a
unified theory of nature's forces. At that time it was, we now
realise, a premature quest which was doomed from the start. Cynics
have said that Einstein might as well have gone fishing from 1920
onwards. Although there's something rather noble about the way he
persevered in his attempts to reach far beyond his grasp, in some
respects the EINSTEIN CULT SENDS THE WRONG SIGNAL. It unduly exalts
"armchair theory", which by itself would achieve little."

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