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On Jun 5, 1:52 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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."
>
> Examples of "stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold
> of any dangerous thought" and advancing some red herring which in the
> end camouflages the real problem:
>
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/030526/26beyond.htm
> "Einstein postulated, first, that the laws of physics don't prefer one
> reference frame over another, as long as each is moving at a constant
> velocity. Second, he said that c, the speed of light, will appear
> exactly the same to every observer, in every frame of reference. A
> century later, that second postulate still defies common sense.

<< where epsilon_0 and mu_0 are physical
constants which can be evaluated by performing two
simple experiments which involve measuring the force
of attraction between two fixed charges and two fixed
parallel current carrying wires. According to the
relativity principle, these experiments must yield
the same values for epsilon_0 and mu_0 in all inertial
frames. Thus, the speed of light must be the same
in all inertial frames. >>
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node108.html

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