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http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
"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!"

When Bryan Wallace wrote this he was dying in oblivion. So he could
have been prejudiced: perhaps the falsehood of Einstein's light
postulate is not so devastating, or not devastating at all, or even
favorable for modern physics.  Just think: so far Einstein's special
relativity was great because it was based on two simple postulates
only. Now that one of them is false, Einstein's special relativity
turns out to be based on a single simple postulate and this makes it
even greater. Essentially, that is what a French Genius called Jean-
Marc Levy-Leblond discovered while Bryan Wallace was dying in
oblivion:

http://o.castera.free.fr/pdf/onemorederivation.pdf
Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond: "This is the point of view from wich I intend
to criticize the overemphasized role of the speed of light in the
foundations of the special relativity, and to propose an approach to
these foundations that dispenses with the hypothesis of the invariance
of c....We believe that special relativity at the present time stands
as a universal theory discribing the structure of a common space-time
arena in which all fundamental processes take place....The evidence of
the nonzero mass of the photon would not, as such, shake in any way
the validity of the special relativity. It would, however, nullify all
its derivations which are based on the invariance of the photon
velocity."

Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond's discovery was confirmed by three other
geniuses:

http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/8034dc146100e32c
Tom Roberts: "If it is ultimately discovered that the photon has a
nonzero mass (i.e. light in vacuum does not travel at the invariant
speed of the Lorentz transform), SR would be unaffected but both
Maxwell's equations and QED would be refuted (or rather, their domains
of applicability would be reduced)."

http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/4114.html
Jong-Ping Hsu: "....unexpected affirmative answer to the long-standing
question of whether it is possible to construct a relativity theory
without postulating the constancy of the speed of light and retaining
only the first postulate of special relativity. This question was
discussed in the early years following the discovery of special
relativity by many physicists, including Ritz, Tolman, Kunz, Comstock
and Pauli, all of whom obtained negative answers."

http://www.physorg.com/news111075100.html
"Further, Einstein based his theories on the assumption that the speed
of light, c, is constant, and used gedanken ("thought") experiments
involving light rays to reach his conclusions. Now Joel Gannett, a
Senior Scientist in the Applied Research Area of Telcordia
Technologies in Red Bank, New Jersey, has found that Einstein didn't
have to do the work the hard way. A researcher in optical networking
technologies, Gannett has shown that the Lorentz transformations and
velocity addition law can be derived without assuming the constancy of
the speed of light, without thought experiments, and without calculus.
In this case, Einsteinian relativity could have been discovered
several centuries before Einstein."

So Bryan Wallace was wrong whereas Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond is right.
Accordingly, dying in oblivion was what Bryan Wallace deserved whereas
the position of Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond in Einstein Criminal Cult is as
high as that of Tomas de Torquemada in the Spanish Inquisition. Jean-
Marc Levy-Lebond deserves this.

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