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Pentcho Valev wrote:
>http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09051352-has-einstein-f
>ailed-physics
>"Has Einstein failed physics? The GBP3.6bn Large Hadron Collider is
>one of world's most advanced scientific experiments, built to smash
>protons together at huge speeds, recreating conditions moments after
>the Big Bang. Unfortunately it doesn't work. Now a new paper by a
>North East academic presents the intriguing possibility that the Large
>Hadron Collider didn't work not because of mechanical failure, but
>because basic theories of physics may be wrong. Dr Peter Hayes says:
>'Theoretical physicists have been barking up the wrong tree for the
>last hundred years - because Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is
>inconsistent.....Dr Peter Hayes is senior lecturer in politics at the
>University of Sunderland. In his latest paper 'The Ideology of
>Relativity' Dr Hayes argues that Albert Einstein's theory of
>relativity - perhaps the most famous scientific theory in history -
>should be viewed as an ideology, not as a science. He argues that its
>impact on popular culture and science has been so influential
>precisely because as a scientific theory it doesn't actually make
>sense.....The amazing thing about Einstein's theory of relativity is
>that it has kept going. It is built on contradictions, but these very
>contradictions means that almost anything 'proves' that it is right.
>It is a bit like a theory where you say 1 + 1 = 2, but also that 1+ 1
>= 3.....'The triumph of relativity theory represents the triumph of
>ideology not only in the profession of physics but also in the
>philosophy of science.'  'The Ideology of Relativity: The Case of the
>Clock Paradox,' appeared in Social Epistemology, January 2009."


.... and I thought it was just me who noticed :o)


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John Kennaugh