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> > > http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-17.html#seventeen
> > > George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
> > > though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
> > > includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive
> > > logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
> > > inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of
> > > thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
> > > Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."
>
> > > http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-22.html#twentytwo
> > > George Orwell: "He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He
> > > presented himself with propositions - "the Party says the earth is
> > > flat", "the party says that ice is heavier than water" - and trained
> > > himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that
> > > contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of
> > > reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for
> > > instance, by such a statement as "two and two make five" were beyond
> > > his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind,
> > > an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at
> > > the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity
> > > was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain."
>
> > > George Orwell's text modified so as to describe a physics student's
> > > self-education:
>
> > > "He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself
> > > with propositions - "Einsteiniana says that, when the observer starts
> > > moving towards the light source, the Doppler effect is due to shift
> > > inwavelength, not to shift in the speed of light", "Einsteiniana says
> > > that, in accordance with Einstein's 1905 light postulate, a 80m long
> > > pole can safely be trapped inside a 40m long barn" - and trained
> > > himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that
> > > contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of
> > > reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for
> > > instance, by such a statement as "two and two make five" were beyond
> > > his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind,
> > > an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at
> > > the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity
> > > was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain."
>
> > John Norton, the cleverest Einsteinian, exercising himself in and
> > teaching crimestop. The TEXT IN CAPITALS is an obvious stupidity but
> > John Norton and his students sincerely believe in it:
>
> > http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/big_bang/index.html
> > John Norton: "Here's a light wave and an observer. If the observer
> > were to hurry towards the source of the light, the observer would now
> > pass wavecrests more frequently than the resting observer. That would
> > mean that moving observer would find the frequency of the light to
> > have increased (AND CORRESPONDINGLY FOR THE WAVELENGTH - THE DISTANCE
> > BETWEEN CRESTS - TO HAVE DECREASED)."
>
> > Without the "protective stupidity" John Norton would have to explain
> > that it is the speed of light that varies with the frequency when the
> > observer starts hurrying towards the source of light.
>
> A sound question challenging Einstein's 1905 false light postulate
> (note how stupid the answer is):
>
> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_can_the_relative_speed_of_light_be_constant_when_the_Doppler_shift_of_light_suggests_addition_or_subtraction_of_velocities
> Question: How can the relative speed of light be constant when the
> Doppler shift of light suggests addition or subtraction of velocities?

"Stopping [in this case perhaps too] short, as though by instinct, at
the threshold of any dangerous thought":

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/10/03/high-energy-gamma-rays-go-slower-than-the-speed-of-light/
"The speed of light is the speed of light, and that's that. Right?
Well, maybe not. Try and figure this out. Astronomers studying
radiation coming from a distant galaxy found that the high energy
gamma rays arrived a few minutes after the lower-energy photons, even
though they were emitted at the same time. If true, this result would
overturn Einstein's theory of relativity, which says that all photons
should move at the speed of light. Uh oh Einstein."

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