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Article #6594Re: SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY
From: BradGuth
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:42
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:42
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On May 13, 11:29 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09051352-has-einstei... > "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." > > See also: > > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thre... > IS RELATIVITY AN INCONSISTENCY? > > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thre... > INCONSISTENCY IN PHYSICAL SCIENCES > > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thre... > LARGE HADRON COLLIDER AND EINSTEIN 1954 CONFESSION > > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thre... > EINSTEINIANA'S LOGIC > > Pentcho Valev > pva...@yahoo.com The closed Einstein mindset is the exact same thing as asking the Pope to become Jewish. No matters what (including death), it is not going to happen. ~ BG
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