🚀 go-pugleaf

JanPB wrote:

> There are lots of junk books out there, not just in pop physics. Media
> always desperately try to create "heroes" for public consumption
> because it pays. That so many people around here believe physicists
> actually subscribe to those silly ideas ("Einstein=God" and similar
> nonsense) only proves the "it pays" point.

Physicists still believe in absolute silly things such as

**  Principle of Relativity which has been proven false by
Hafele-Keating experiment, GPS, and more.

**  Goedesics follow the path with the maximum amount of accumulated
spacetime.

**  SR does not manifest the twin's paradox.

**  ds^2 = g_ij dq^i dq^j = f(dq, dq)

      g_ij = f()

**  All solutions to the field equations where the equations are only
valid with one specific choice of coordinate system suddenly represent
a unified solution with each solution associated with each possible
choice of coordinate system.

**  GPS proves GR and/or SR where some certain crackpots may not agree
that GPS does prove SR.

**  Field equations were derived while Einstein fancying himself in
free fall.

**  Einstein Equivalence Principle is the most power of them all
despite it serves no real purpose.  Galileo's principle of
equivalence paved the way for Newton's law of gravity.

**  The math-illiterate, Einstein, himself can come up with the math of
the field equations.

**  ...

And the most absurd of it all.

**  The curvature in spacetime is caused by energy where energy is an
observed phenomenon.

Arguing for any of the points above would make the discussion about
(Einstein = God) more serious.