Re: HOW BEYOND-EINSTEIN CRACKPOTS SHOULD START THEIR THEORIES

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From: PD
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:48

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On Nov 15, 1:15 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1113/2
> "The experiment provides a particularly useful new datum, says Alan
> Kostelecky, a physicist at Indiana University, Bloomington, who
> developed the theory that aims to incorporate all possible violations
> of special relativity. Known as the Standard-Model Extension, the
> theory contains 19 parameters, or "coefficients," that allow for
> wiggle room. "They have placed an improved bound on a coefficient that
> is particularly difficult to measure," Kostelecky says. Any theories
> that move beyond special relativity would have to agree with special
> relativity to within this very tight margin. So, to improve their
> credibility, the crackpots should start their manuscripts with,
> "Einstein was not quite right."
>
> I think Lee Smolin, John Stachel, string theorists and all other
> Beyond-Einsteinians or The-Other-Einsteinians should take notice of
> what Alan Kostelecky says.
>
> Pentcho Valev

I don't know why you would suggest that to them. None of the names
mentioned would say that SR is not quite right. In fact, string theory
is completely and manifestly covariant -- completely consistent with
SR.

Of course, there are those who foam at the mouth when Mr. A *extends*
the work of Mr. B, taking that to be a sign that "Surely Mr. B must
have been wrong! Mr. A says so!" Anybody who has it out for Mr. B will
tend to foam that way at every opportunity.

PD

PD

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