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On Mar 26, 9:46 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Four years ago:
>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v433/n7023/full/433218a.html
> The journal Nature: "EINSTEIN RESTORED FAITH IN THE UNINTELLIGIBILITY
> OF SCIENCE. Everyone knew that Einstein had done something important
> in 1905 (and again in 1915) but almost nobody could tell you exactly
> what it was. When Einstein was interviewed for a Dutch newspaper in
> 1921, he attributed his mass appeal to the mystery of his work for the
> ordinary person: "Does it make a silly impression on me, here and
> yonder, about my theories of which they cannot understand a word? I
> think it is funny and also interesting to observe. I am sure that it
> is the mystery of non-understanding that appeals to them...it
> impresses them, it has the colour and the appeal of the mysterious."
>
> Recent repentance:
>
> http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-thorson0326.artmar26,0,3136853.column
> "Albert Einstein strengthened science through his contributions, but
> he may have inadvertently crippled science education through his
> example. This notion is supported by an editorial, "Redefining Science
> Education," published in January by Bruce Alberts, editor in chief of
> the journal Science. His main concern is that "many college-educated
> adults in the United States," including teachers, "fail to understand
> that science is a way of knowing completely different from mysticism,
> tradition and faith." Science is based on "evidence that can be
> logically and independently verified," rather than on personal
> authority."
>
> Too late perhaps. Potemkin villages will disappear some day but
> "mysticism, tradition and faith" in science will remain:
>
> http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/080616

Repenting Einsteinians (e.g. those who will never again refer to
Einstein's original special relativity and have deformed it forever)
get awards:

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/wht/2009/03/lee-smolin-named-2009-aapt-klo.html
"Dr. Lee Smolin, a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada and Adjunct
Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo, is the 2009
recipient of the Klopsteg Memorial Award from the American Association
of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Klopsteg awardees are chosen for their
extraordinary accomplishments in communicating the excitement of
physics to the general public. The Klopsteg awardee presents a lecture
on a physics topic of current significance suitable for non-
specialists, in memory of Paul Klopsteg, AAPT Past President. Dr.
Smolin will receive the award at the 2009 AAPT Summer Meeting in Ann
Arbor, MI. "Lee Smolin, a founding member and research physicist at
the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo Canada, is well known as a popular
author and lecturer, and for his many world-wide appearances on
television and radio. For his outstanding contributions in the
communication of the excitement of contemporary physics to the general
public, the awards committee is proud to present the Klopsteg Memorial
Award," says Lila Adair, AAPT Awards Chair, and 2009 AAPT Past
President. Dr. Smolin has written three books, The Life of the Cosmos
(1977), Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2001), and The Trouble with
Physics (2006), which explore the philosophical ramifications of
developments in contemporary physics and cosmology. Dr. Smolin has
also authored more than 140 scientific papers and has made major
contributions to the quantum theory of gravity, being a co-inventor of
LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY AND DEFORMED SPECIAL RELATIVITY."

The essence of any DEFORMATION:

http://www.fqxi.org/data/articles/Searching_for_the_Golden_Spike.pdf
"Loop quantum gravity also makes the heretical prediction that the
speed of light depends on its frequency. That prediction violates
special relativity, Einstein's rule that light in a vacuum travels at
a constant speed for all observers..."

Some day Lee Smolin will be awarded for deforming Newtonian physics as
well:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=5f32739a-624d-4ec8-9ecc-4d44d3d16fe9
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com