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On 22 jan, 07:57, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://communities.canada.com/calgaryherald/print.aspx?postid=542737
> "Real scientists would care about Climategate fraud. The Climategate e-
> mails are the proverbial smoking gun, but it's curious so few
> scientists cared about the bleeding scientific body lying at their
> feet. The word fraud and climate science are being used a lot in the
> same sentence lately - and, frankly, it's about time. After all,
> what's astonishing about what has now been dubbed Climategate is
> myriad, but the most important aspect is that evidence of scientific
> fraud with regard to global warming science has existed for a very
> long time, and yet prior to these bombshell e-mails it was just
> shrugged off by scientists who have become advocates for the theory of
> man-made global warming. This should always have been troubling. As
> French philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss wrote: "The scientific mind
> does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right
> questions." When it comes to climate science however, those who ask
> the questions are treated as heretics and called deniers."
>
> http://exilestreet.com/?p=1337
> "In the most notorious trial in the history of science, the
> Inquisition condemned Galileo in 1633. The aged scientist was forced
> to recant his lifes work. The fact that the earth revolves around the
> sun threatened the church establishment's doctrine. Galileo was worse
> than right - he was inconvenient. Since his trial, scientists have
> mythologized him as their secular saint. How times have changed: With
> the Climategate scandal, we now find scientists in the role of
> inquisitors - suppressing inconvenient facts and persecuting
> researchers who challenge the doctrine decreed by the Global Warming
> clergy."
>
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909857880
> Peter Hayes "The Ideology of Relativity: The Case of the Clock
> Paradox" : Social Epistemology, Volume 23, Issue 1 January 2009, pages
> 57-78
> "The gatekeepers of professional physics in the universities and
> research institutes are disinclined to support or employ anyone who
> raises problems over the elementary inconsistencies of relativity. A
> winnowing out process has made it very difficult for critics of
> Einstein to achieve or maintain professional status. Relativists are
> then able to use the argument of authority to discredit these critics.
> Were relativists to admit that Einstein may have made a series of
> elementary logical errors, they would be faced with the embarrassing
> question of why this had not been noticed earlier. Under these
> circumstances the marginalisation of antirelativists, unjustified on
> scientific grounds, is eminently justifiable on grounds of
> realpolitik. Supporters of relativity theory have protected both the
> theory and their own reputations by shutting their opponents out of
> professional discourse."
>
> http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/080616
> "Like bronze idols that are hollow inside, Einstein built a cluster of
> "Potemkin villages," which are false fronts with nothing behind them.
> Grigori Potemkin (17391791) was a general-field marshal, Russian
> statesman, and favorite of Empress Catherine the Great. He is alleged
> to have built facades of non-existent villages along desolate
> stretches of the Dnieper River to impress Catherine as she sailed to
> the Crimea in 1787. Actors posing as happy peasants stood in front of
> these pretty stage sets and waved to the pleased Empress. This
> incident reminds me of the story of Eleanor Roosevelt's Moscow tour
> guide who showed her the living quarters of communist party bosses and
> claimed that these were the apartments of the average Russian worker.
> The incredibly gullible first lady was delighted. Like Catherine, the
> sentimental Eleanor was prone to wishful thinking and was easily
> deceived. What has all this to do with Einstein? The science
> establishment has a powerful romantic desire to believe in Einstein.
> Therefore, they are not only fooled by Einstein's tricks, they are
> prepared to defend his Potemkin villages."
>
> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...
> 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."
>
> 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!....The speed of light is c+v."
>
> http://web.mit.edu/keenansymposium/overview/background/index.html
> Arthur Eddington: "The law that entropy always increases, holds, I
> think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone
> points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in
> disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for
> Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation
> - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your
> theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics, I can
> give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest
> humiliation."
>
> http://www.beilstein-institut.de/bozen2004/proceedings/CornishBowden/...
> ATHEL CORNISH-BOWDEN: "The concept of entropy was introduced to
> thermodynamics by Clausius, who deliberately chose an obscure term for
> it, wanting a word based on Greek roots that would sound similar to
> "energy". In this way he hoped to have a word that would mean the same
> to everyone regardless of their language, and, as Cooper [2] remarked,
> he succeeded in this way in finding a word that meant the same to
> everyone: NOTHING. From the beginning it proved a very difficult
> concept for other thermodynamicists, even including such accomplished
> mathematicians as Kelvin and Maxwell; Kelvin, indeed, despite his own
> major contributions to the subject, never appreciated the idea of
> entropy [3]. The difficulties that Clausius created have continued to
> the present day, with the result that a fundamental idea that is
> absolutely necessary for understanding the theory of chemical
> equilibria continues to give trouble, not only to students but also to
> scientists who need the concept for their work."
>
> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
> Jos Uffink: "This summary leads to the question whether it is fruitful
> to see irreversibility or time-asymmetry as the essence of the second
> law. Is it not more straightforward, in view of the unargued
> statements of Kelvin, the bold claims of Clausius and the strained
> attempts of Planck, to give up this idea? I believe that Ehrenfest-
> Afanassjewa was right in her verdict that the discussion about the
> arrow of time as expressed in the second law of the thermodynamics is
> actually a RED HERRING."
>
> ftp://ftp.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/SISTA/markovsky/reports/06-46.pdf
> "From the pedagogical point of view, thermodynamics is a disaster. As
> the authors rightly state in the introduction, many aspects are
> "riddled with inconsistencies". They quote V.I. Arnold, who concedes
> that "every mathematician knows it is impossible to understand an
> elementary course in thermodynamics". Nobody has eulogized this
> confusion more colorfully than the late Clifford Truesdell. On page 6
> of his book "The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics" 1822-1854
> (Springer Verlag, 1980), he calls thermodynamics "a dismal swamp of
> obscurity". Elsewhere, in despair of trying to make sense of the
> writings of some local heros as De Groot, Mazur, Casimir, and
> Prigogine, Truesdell suspects that there is "something rotten in the
> (thermodynamic) state of the Low Countries" (see page 134 of Rational
> Thermodynamics, McGraw-Hill, 1969)."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

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