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On May 24, 7:59 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/080616
> "Like bronze idols that are hollow inside, Einstein built a cluster of
> "Potemkin villages," which are false fronts with nothing behind them.
> Grigori Potemkin (17391791) was a general-field marshal, Russian
> statesman, and favorite of Empress Catherine the Great. He is alleged
> to have built facades of non-existent villages along desolate
> stretches of the Dnieper River to impress Catherine as she sailed to
> the Crimea in 1787. Actors posing as happy peasants stood in front of
> these pretty stage sets and waved to the pleased Empress."
>
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909857880
> The Ideology of Relativity: The Case of the Clock Paradox
> Peter Hayes: "The argument that Einstein fomented an ideological
> rather than a scientific revolution helps to explain of one of the
> features of this revolution that puzzled Kuhn: despite the apparent
> scope of the general theory, very little has come out of it. Viewing
> relativity theory as an ideology also helps to account for Poppers
> doubts over whether special theory can be retained, given experimental
> results in quantum mechanics and Einsteins questionable approach to
> defining simultaneity. Both Kuhn and Popper have looked to the other
> branch of the theory - Popper to the general and Kuhn to the special -
> to try and retain their view of Einstein as a revolutionary scientist.
> According to the view proposed here, this only indicates how special
> and general theories function together as an ideology, as when one
> side of the theory is called into question, the other can be called
> upon to rescue it. The triumph of relativity theory represents the
> triumph of ideology not only in the profession of physics bur also in
> the philosophy of science. These conclusions are of considerable
> interest to both theoretical physics and to social epistemology. It
> would, however, be naïve to think that theoretical physicists will
> take the slightest notice of them."
>
> http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
> Bryan Wallace: "There is a popular argument that the world's oldest
> profession is sexual prostitution. I think that it is far more likely
> that the oldest profession is scientific prostitution, and that it is
> still alive and well, and thriving in the 20th century. I suspect that
> long before sex had any commercial value, the prehistoric shamans used
> their primitive knowledge to acquire status, wealth, and political
> power, in much the same way as the dominant scientific and religious
> politicians of our time do. (...) Because many of the dominant
> theories of our time do not follow the rules of science, they should
> more properly be labeled pseudoscience. The people who tend to believe
> more in theories than in the scientific method of testing theories,
> and who ignore the evidence against the theories they believe in,
> should be considered pseudoscientists and not true scientists. To the
> extent that the professed beliefs are based on the desire for status,
> wealth, or political reasons, these people are scientific prostitutes.
> (...) Einstein's special relativity theory with his second postulate
> that the speed of light in space is constant is the linchpin that
> holds the whole range of modern physics theories together. Shatter
> this postulate, and modern physics becomes an elaborate farce! (...)
> The speed of light is c+v."
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218
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Extracting career and money from criticizing dead science:

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Challenging the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics with Professor Daniel
Sheehan Ph.D., Physics Professor, San Diego University, California

Pentcho Valev
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