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Pentcho Valev 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:
> ..................................................

Another example 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 falsehood of Einstein's 1905 light
postulate:

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/Special_Relativity/index.html
John Norton: "Why Einstein should believe the light postulate is a
little harder to see. We would expect that a light signal would slow
down relative to us if we chased after it. The light postulate says
no. No matter how fast an inertial observer is traveling in pursuit of
the light signal, that observer will always see the light signal
traveling at the same speed, c. The principal reason for his
acceptance of the light postulate was his lengthy study of
electrodynamics, the theory of electric and magnetic fields. The
theory was the most advanced physics of the time. Some 50 years
before, Maxwell had shown that light was merely a ripple propagating
in an electromagnetic field. Maxwell's theory predicted that the speed
of the ripple was a quite definite number: c. The speed of a light
signal was quite unlike the speed of a pebble, say. The pebble could
move at any speed, depending on how hard it was thrown. It was
different with light in Maxwell's theory. No matter how the light
signal was made and projected, its speed always came out the same."

If John Norton did not obey crimestop, his text would be as follows:

"Why Einstein did not believe the light postulate is easy to see. We
would expect that a light signal would slow down relative to us if we
chased after it. The light postulate says no. That is, in accordance
with the light postulate, no matter how fast an inertial observer is
traveling in pursuit of the light signal, that observer will always
see the light signal traveling at the same speed, c. The principal
reason for his secret rejection of the light postulate was his lengthy
study of electrodynamics, the theory of electric and magnetic fields.
The theory was the most advanced physics of the time. Some 50 years
before, Maxwell had shown that light was merely a ripple propagating
in the aether. Maxwell's theory predicted that the speed of the
ripple, relative to the aether, was a quite definite number: c. If,
however, the relative speed of the observer and the aether was v, then
the speed of light relative to the observer was VARIABLE and obeyed
the equation c'=c+v. Yet that was not the correct equation: as far as
its speed was concerned,  light obeyed Newton's emission theory of
light and behaved like a pebble, say. That is, the speed of light was
again VARIABLE and obeyed the equation c'=c+v, but this equation was
different since v was the relative speed of the light source and the
observer."

Pentcho Valev
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