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The coexistence of the following two texts, without the scientific
community being able to see any contradiction, proves that rationality
has been irreversibly destroyed in Einstein's world:

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/relativity_worldbook.html
NASA: "Michelson and Morley conducted their experiment to measure
expected differences in the speed of light relative to their
laboratory. Although light travels extremely rapidly, their experiment
could measure tiny differences in speed. Surprisingly, Michelson and
Morley found no difference at all. This result was a great puzzle.
Physicists tried without success to determine how light could act in a
manner consistent with both Galilean relativity and the Michelson-
Morley experiment."

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as
evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost
universally use it as support for the light postulate of special
relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE
WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT
POSTULATE."

If some day scientists somehow come to the conclusion that scientific
rationality should somehow be restored, a conference will be organized
and the rallying cry will be:

"Physicists are trying without success to realize why, although light
acted in a manner consistent with both Galilean relativity and the
Michelson-Morley experiment, a protective belt (Lakatos' terminology)
for the ether theory, later successfully shielding Einstein's 1905
false light postulate, was built by FitzGerald, Lorentz, Poincare:
http://books.google.com/books?id=JokgnS1JtmMC "Relativity and Its
Roots" By Banesh Hoffmann, p.92: "Moreover, if light consists of
particles, as Einstein had suggested in his paper submitted just
thirteen weeks before this one, the second principle seems absurd: A
stone thrown from a speeding train can do far more damage than one
thrown from a train at rest; the speed of the particle is not
independent of the motion of the object emitting it. And if we take
light to consist of particles and assume that these particles obey
Newton's laws, they will conform to Newtonian relativity and thus
automatically account for the null result of the Michelson-Morley
experiment without recourse to contracting lengths, local time, or
Lorentz transformations. Yet, as we have seen, Einstein resisted the
temptation to account for the null result in terms of particles of
light and simple, familiar Newtonian ideas, and introduced as his
second postulate something that was more or less obvious when thought
of in terms of waves in an ether."

Pentcho Valev
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