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Article #5874Re: WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO ALLOW THE SPEED OF LIGHT TO VARY
From: Bryan Olson
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:39
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:39
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Pentcho Valev wrote: > http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/030526/26beyond.htm > [...] Magueijo isn't proposing to throw relativity out the > window, any more than Einstein junked Newton. "We get E-mail and > letters all the time from amateurs who think they have found a mistake > in Einstein's theory," says Lee Smolin, a physicist at the Perimeter > Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. "That's not what is going on here." It is, on the other hand, what's going on here on s.p.r. > If > relativity is wrong, it is wrong by such tiny amounts or in such > particular circumstances that you have to go to great lengths to find > the error. Maybe Pencho should send them one of those letters, to explain that it's all a criminal cult, and tell them about the pole-in-the-barn thing. -- --Bryan
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