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On Dec 22, 14:00, "Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoor...@ThankS-NO-
SperM.hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Pentcho Valev" <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote in messagenews:f01d260a-49b7-43a0-b1ad-85d5b1b590f7@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> > http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Curved-Spacetime-without-relativity/dp/0955706807
> > Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without special relativity
> > by Eric Baird (Author)
> > "Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century
> > science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered
> > series of increasingly difficult mathematics and increasingly abstract
> > concepts. We're told that relativity theory is supposed to be this
> > complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical
> > complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and
> > paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Einstein's special theory and jump
> > directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What
> > if curvature is a fundamental part of physics, and a final theory of
> > relativity shouldn't reduce to Einstein's "flat" 1905 theory //on
> > principle//? "Relativity..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of
> > Twentieth Century physics - from black holes, quantum mechanics,
> > wormholes and the Big Bang to the workings of the human mind, and
> > asks: what would physics look like without special relativity?"
>
> Evolution in Selecting Nature: Life without Evolution
> by Beric Aird (Author)
> "Evolution theory has become one of the icons of Nineteenth Century
> science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered
> series of increasingly difficult common sense and increasingly abstract
> concepts. We're told that Evolution theory is supposed to be this
> complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical
> complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and
> paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Darwin's evolution theory and jump
> directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What
> if selection is a fundamental part of biology, and a final theory of
> Evolution shouldn't reduce to Darwin's "flat" 1859 theory //on
> principle//? "Evolution..." takes us on a whistlestop tour of
> Nineteenth Century biology - from black birds, quacking geese,
> hole worms and the Big Elephant to the workings of the human mind, and
> asks: what would biology look like without Evolution?"
>
> Dirk Vdm

Bravo Moortel! A witty zombie! However your work is not finished.
There is another text that should be dealt with by bellicose zombies:

http://ustl1.univ-lille1.fr/culture/publication/lna/detail/lna40/pgs/4_5.pdf
Jean Eisenstaedt: "Il n'y a alors aucune raison theorique a ce que la
vitesse de la lumiere ne depende pas de la vitesse de sa source ainsi
que de celle de l'observateur terrestre ; plus clairement encore, il
n'y a pas de raison, dans le cadre de la logique des Principia de
Newton, pour que la lumiere se comporte autrement - quant a sa
trajectoire - qu'une particule materielle. Il n'y a pas non plus de
raison pour que la lumiere ne soit pas sensible a la gravitation.
Bref, pourquoi ne pas appliquer a la lumiere toute la theorie
newtonienne ? C'est en fait ce que font plusieurs astronomes,
opticiens, philosophes de la nature a la fin du XVIIIeme siecle. Les
resultats sont etonnants... et aujourd'hui nouveaux."

Translation from French: "Therefore there is no theoretical reason why
the speed of light should not depend on the speed of the source and
the speed of the terrestrial observer as well; even more clearly,
there is no reason, in the framework of the logic of Newton's
Principia, why light should behave, as far as its trajectory is
concerned, differently from a material particle. Neither is there any
reason why light should not be sensible to gravitation. Briefly, why
don't we apply the whole Newtonian theory to light? In fact, that is
what many astronomers, opticians, philosophers of nature did by the
end of 18th century. The results are surprising....and new nowadays."

Pentcho Valev
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