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On Jun 23, 2:52 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A few years ago a serious analysis of the foundations of
> thermodynamics produced the conclusion that the law of entropy
> increase is actually a RED HERRING:
>
> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
> Jos Uffink: Bluff your Way in the Second Law of Thermodynamics
>
> If such a radical criticism had been published 40-50 years ago, the
> reaction of the establishment would have ben both energetic and
> hostile (remember Herbert Dingle's saga for instance). In 2001 there
> was no reaction, except for a few vague positive(!) references.
>
> A few months ago another serious analysis produced the conclusion that
> Einstein's relativity is an ideology, not a science:
>
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909857880
> Peter Hayes: The Ideology of Relativity: The Case of the Clock
> Paradox
>
> Again the reaction is silence: no hostility coming from the
> establishment. The feature of Postscientism (generally, it is a
> feature of Postmodernism) that explains this state of affairs consists
> in the fact that official science has adopted ALL possible
> alternatives and so has become unassailable. Just an example of
> "radical heresy" advanced by official science that discourages any
> genuine criticism:
>
> http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=5538
> Paul Davies: "Was Einstein wrong? Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 is
> the only scientific formula known to just about everyone. The "c" here
> stands for the speed of light. It is one of the most fundamental of
> the basic constants of physics. Or is it? In recent years a few
> maverick scientists have claimed that the speed of light might not be
> constant at all. Shock, horror! Does this mean the next Great
> Revolution in Science is just around the corner?"

Education in the era of Postscientism: "....the ideas of absolute
simultaneity and the relativity of simultaneity harmoniously co-
exist."

http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=AJPIAS0000690000S1000S24000001
Student understanding of time in special relativity: Simultaneity and
reference frames, American Journal of Physics -- July 2001 -- Volume
69, Issue S1, pp. S24-S35
"Evidence is presented that suggests many students construct a
conceptual framework in which the ideas of absolute simultaneity and
the relativity of simultaneity HARMONIOUSLY co-exist."

In Big Brother's world this would be referred to as "students exercise
themselves in doublethink":

http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-17.html#seventeen
George Orwell: "Doublethink means the power of holding two
contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both
of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories
must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with
reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself
that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it
would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to
be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and
hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since
the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while
retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To
tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any
fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary
again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed,
to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take
account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably
necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to
exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is
tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this
knowledge ; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead
of the truth."

See more educational challenges offered by Einstein's 1905 false light
postulate here:

http://labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/4514/2/2/attack-on-great-pillar-of-physics

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com