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Article #6054Re: THE OFFICIAL END OF EINSTEIN RELATIVITY
From: Igor
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:34
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:34
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On Nov 20, 3:38 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://www.spacetimesociety.org/conferences/2008/ > Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime > June 13-15, 2008 > > I expect this conference to announce the official end of Einstein's > relativity because John Norton is an invited speaker and because he > seems to be the only hypnotist in Einstein criminal cult who knows why > Einstein turned against the field concept at the end of his life. > Compare the following two quotations: > > http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/homepage/cv.html#forthcoming > "Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the > Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies that Led him to it." in Cambridge > Companion to Einstein, M. Janssen and C. Lehner, eds., Cambridge > University Press. Preprint. > John Norton: "Einstein could not see how to formulate a fully > relativistic electrodynamics merely using his new device of field > transformations. So he considered the possibility of modifying > Maxwell's electrodynamics in order to bring it into accord with an > emission theory of light, such as Newton had originally conceived. > There was some inevitability in these attempts, as long as he held to > classical (Galilean) kinematics. Imagine that some emitter sends out a > light beam at c. According to this kinematics, an observer who moves > past at v in the opposite direction, will see the emitter moving at v > and the light emitted at c+v. This last fact is the defining > characteristic of an emission theory of light: the velocity of the > emitter is added vectorially to the velocity of light emitted....If an > emission theory can be formulated as a field theory, it would seem to > be unable to determine the future course of processes from their state > in the present. AS LONG AS EINSTEIN EXPECTED A VIABLE THEORY LIGHT, > ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM TO BE A FIELD THEORY, these sorts of > objections would render an EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT INADMISSIBLE." > > 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." > > Of course, John Norton is just as dishonest as his criminal brothers > but lately this type of dishonesty has become too dangerous and John > Norton surely knows this. > > Pentcho Valev So is the end official end of your pathetic postings, too?
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X-Google-Thread: 10f545,6c49e2858065bda0 X-Google-Thread: 10b271,6c49e2858065bda0 X-Google-Thread: f74ae,6c49e2858065bda0 X-Google-Thread: fa4c1,6c49e2858065bda0 X-Google-Thread: 1139f8,6c49e2858065bda0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f545,gid10b271,gidf74ae,gidfa4c1,gid1139f8,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Igor <thoovler@excite.com> Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics, sci.astro, fr.sci.physique, fr.sci.maths Subject: Re: THE OFFICIAL END OF EINSTEIN RELATIVITY Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:34:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 49 Message-ID: <2a299797-9bb2-4b91-b064-baf532540a87@o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> References: <dd9e761c-4034-470b-8690-65ddc7dabaeb@i37g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.205.116.38 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195583683 794 127.0.0.1 (20 Nov 2007 18:34:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:34:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.205.116.38; posting-account=UM3jRwkAAADTHFmJ20qgwageu031CeWA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline