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On May 20, 9:04 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
> George Orwell "1984": "In the end the Party would announce that two
> and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable
> that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their
> position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the
> very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their
> philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was
> terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise,
> but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two
> and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the
> past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist
> only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?"
>
> In Big Brother's world the fundamental truth is 2+2=5. In Einstein's
> world the fundamental truth is Einstein's 1905 false light postulate,
> together with its breathtaking consequences (time dilation, length
> contraction etc). Both fundamental truths are irrefutable, just as
> "The greenness of the crocodile exceeds its length" is irrefutable.
> Let me call the attention to the work of a martyr, Bryan Wallace (the
> text is sloppy at places since he was writing the book while dying):
>
> 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."

Einsteiniana's "science":

http://www.phil-inst.hu/~szekely/PIRT_BUDAPEST/
Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy In the Interpretations of
Relativity Theory, Budapest 4-6 September 2009
Conference broshure: "While the organizing committee encourages
critical investigations and welcomes both Einsteinian and non-
Einsteinian (Lorentzian, etc.) approaches, including the recently
proposed ether-type theories, it is assumed that the received formal
structure of the theory is valid and anti-relativistic papers will not
be accepted."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com