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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?"

Postscientism: Time is an illusion. Time is not an illusion.
Einstein's 1905 false light postulate, the source of the confusion,
should not be discussed:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june232009/einstein_lessons_dj_6-22-09.php
"For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past,
present and future is only an illusion, however tenacious" - Albert
Einstein

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/passage/index.html
John Norton, 1 Mar 2009: "A common belief among philosophers of
physics is that the passage of time of ordinary experience is merely
an illusion. The idea is seductive since it explains away the awkward
fact that our best physical theories of space and time have yet to
capture this passage. I urge that we should resist the idea. We know
what illusions are like and how to detect them. Passage exhibits no
sign of being an illusion....Following from the work of Einstein,
Minkowski and many more, physics has given a wonderfully powerful
conception of space and time. Relativity theory, in its most
perspicacious form, melds space and time together to form a four-
dimensional spacetime. The study of motion in space and and all other
processes that unfold in them merely reduce to the study of an odd
sort of geometry that prevails in spacetime. In many ways, time turns
out to be just like space. In this spacetime geometry, there are
differences between space and time. But a difference that somehow
captures the passage of time is not to be found. There is no passage
of time. There are temporal orderings. We can identify earlier and
later stages of temporal processes and everything in between. What we
cannot find is a passing of those stages that recapitulates the
presentation of the successive moments to our consciousness, all
centered on the one preferred moment of "now." At first, that seems
like an extraordinary lacuna. It is, it would seem, a failure of our
best physical theories of time to capture one of time's most important
properties. However the longer one works with the physics, the less
worrisome it becomes....I was, I confess, a happy and contented
believer that passage is an illusion. It did bother me a little that
we seemed to have no idea of just how the news of the moments of time
gets to be rationed to consciousness in such rigid doses.....Now
consider the passage of time. Is there a comparable reason in the
known physics of space and time to dismiss it as an illusion? I know
of none. The only stimulus is a negative one. We don't find passage in
our present theories and we would like to preserve the vanity that our
physical theories of time have captured all the important facts of
time. So we protect our vanity by the stratagem of dismissing passage
as an illusion."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com