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On Thu, 3/12/09, Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 (see examples of guilty
> conscience below) while ordinary mortals are forced to learn
> by rote the absurd consequences of Einstein's 1905 false
> light postulate. I think it is time for YOU to OFFICIALLY
> restore the truth.
>
> I will post this Open Letter on a few internet forums.
> ............................................

Three examples illustrating the destruction of human rationality
inflicted by Einstein's 1905 false light postulate: the long train is
short (if trapped inside a short tunnel), the 80m long pole is 40m
long (if trapped inside a 40m long barn and Einsteinians have
forgotten to reopen the doors of the barn "pretty quickly"), the bug
is both dead and alive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIyDfo_mY&mode=related&search=

http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html
"These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors
at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a
switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in
the barn....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an
instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you
close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open
them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the
contracted pole shut up in your barn."

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html

Other ways of destroying human rationality:

http://www.kyw1060.com/At-Univ--of-the-Sciences--a-130th-Birthday-Party-f/4016125
"Dr. Paul Halpern, a physics professor who dressed up for the occasion
(above), says students honored Einstein with a party on what would
have been his 130th birthday: (Halpern, in character:)  "...because I
am one of the founders of the Theory of Relativity, and also I make
contributions to quantum physics." Halpern says students could win
prizes by playing "Einstein Jeopardy" and reading physics-related
poetry: "This is a famous limerick about my work:
"There was a young woman named Bright,
Who traveled much faster than light.
She set out one day, in a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.
"That’s about my theory of relativity."

"YES WE ALL BELIEVE IN RELATIVITY, RELATIVITY, RELATIVITY"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkLLXhONvQ

"DIVINE EINSTEIN"
(No-one's as dee-vine as Albert Einstein not Maxwell, Curie, or B-o-o-
ohr!)
http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/divine.htm

Note that the role Einstein's 1905 false light postulate plays in our
world is analogous to the role 2+2=5 plays in Big Brother's world:

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/ George Orwell "1984":
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make
that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy
of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that
they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be
right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or
that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If
both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if
the mind itself is controllable what then?"

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com