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Re: THE OFFICIAL END OF EINSTEIN RELATIVITY

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From: Igor
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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