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Re: SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY

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From: BradGuth
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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