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Open Letter to: Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society

Copy to: Athene Donald FRS, Laurence Eaves Lancashire-Spencer
Professor of Physics, Prof John Peacock, Martin Taylor FRS, Lorna
Casselton FRS

Dear Dr. Rees,

Ninety years ago the Royal Society found it suitable to bury
definitively the antithesis of Einstein's 1905 light postulate - the
equation c'=c+v given by Newton's emission theory of light (v is the
speed of the light source relative to the observer) - although even
then informed scientists including Einstein knew this particular
prediction of the emission theory was correct. Since then a
schizophrenic atmosphere has been established where informed
scientists often hint at and even extract profit from the correct
equation c'=c+v, while ordinary mortals are forced to learn by rote
the absurd consequences of Einstein's 1905 false light ostulate. The
aftermaths are more than serious:

http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
Bryan Wallace: "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!"

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=81&lecture_id=3576
John Stachel: "Einstein discussed the other side of the particle-field
dualism - get rid of fields and just have particles."
Albert Einstein 1954: "I consider it entirely possible that physics
cannot be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous
structures. Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air,
including the theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of
contemporary physics."
John Stachel's comment: "If I go down, everything goes down, ha ha,
hm, ha ha ha."

I think it is time for YOU to OFFICIALLY restore the truth. Yet you
may be right in doing nothing - death of physics seems to have become
irreversible:

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5094243/A-level-physics-students-being-short-changed-at-college.html
> "Shortages of specialist physics teachers and the removal of calculus
> from A-level syllabuses were combining to leave teenagers with poor
> skills, said Gareth Jones, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Imperial
> College, London....It is the latest in a series of attacks on school
> science lessons. Last week, Ofqual, the examinations regulator, said
> GCSEs in the subject had suffered from declining standards in recent
> years following the introduction of new-style syllabuses....A-level
> physics courses, he said, were increasingly expecting pupils simply to
> regurgitate information they had been told, rather than getting them
> to use their understanding to reason their way through problems
> themselves."
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/aug/11/sedgemoresays
> "A FAREWELL TO PHYSICS? That physics education is in decline is beyond
> doubt; the figures speak for themselves. According to a research study
> recently published by Professor Alan Smithers and Dr Pamela Robinson,
> educationalists based at the University of Buckingham, the numbers of
> students taking A-level physics has fallen by 35% since 1990, at the
> same time that A-level entries rose overall by over 12%. The decline
> is claimed to be most noticeable in the state school sector. During
> the same period, a number of university physics departments have
> closed, or been merged with others in order to save costs."
>
> http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/newsarchive2006/ceer-physics-2.html
> "PHYSICS IN TERMINAL DECLINE? In CEER's latest report, published 11
> August 2006 and funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Professor
> Alan Smithers and Dr Pamela Robinson show that the decline in physics
> as student numbers fall and university departments shut is more
> serious than is generally appreciated."
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-we-cannot-afford-this-scientific-brain-drain-891439.html
> "A vicious circle is at work in our education sector. A recent report
> from the University of Buckingham found that almost a quarter of
> secondary schools in England no longer have specialist physics
> teachers. Such shortages mean that the sciences are being less well
> taught in schools and fewer students are pursuing them at university
> as a result."
>
> http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/ingdahl2.html
> "But there has been a marked global decrease of students willing to
> study physics, and funding has decreased accordingly. Not only that,
> the best students are not heading for studies in physics, finding
> other fields more appealing, and science teachers to schools are
> getting scarcer in supply. In fact, warning voices are being heard
> about the spread of a "scientific illiteracy" where many living in
> technologically advanced societies lack the knowledge and the ability
> for critical thinking in order to function in their daily
> environment."
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/nov/22/schools.g2
> "We are nearing the end of the "World Year of Physics", otherwise
> known as Einstein Year, as it is the centenary of his annus mirabilis
> in which he made three incredible breakthroughs, including special
> relativity. In fact, it was 100 years ago yesterday that he published
> the most famous equation in the history of physics: E=mc2. But instead
> of celebrating, physicists are in mourning after a report showed a
> dramatic decline in the number of pupils studying physics at school.
> The number taking A-level physics has dropped by 38% over the past 15
> years, a catastrophic meltdown that is set to continue over the next
> few years. The report warns that a shortage of physics teachers and a
> lack of interest from pupils could mean the end of physics in state
> schools. Thereafter, physics would be restricted to only those
> students who could afford to go to posh schools. Britain was the home
> of Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday and Paul Dirac, and Brits made world-
> class contributions to understanding gravity, quantum physics and
> electromagnetism - and yet the British physicist is now facing
> extinction. But so what? Physicists are not as cuddly as pandas, so
> who cares if we disappear?"

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25345207-2682,00.html
"The number of SA students studying mathematics, physics or chemistry
has suffered a serious decline in recent years.....LET US KNOW - CAN
MATH AND SCIENCE BE SEXY?"

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/solving-graduate-crisis-isnt-rocket-science-1714292.html
"Ireland's need for scientists, IT specialists and engineers is widely
accepted, yet nothing practical is being done about it. After years of
talking, the numbers doing honours mathematics, physics and chemistry
in the Leaving Cert are still declining......If physics or chemistry
is no longer offered, it becomes very difficult to re-introduce the
subject."

HOW EINSTEINIANA MAKES DEAD SCIENCE SEXY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkLLXhONvQ


http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/divineEinstein.pdf


http://www.everythingimportant.org/Einstein_worship/

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