🚀 go-pugleaf

Einstein still rules because physics departments teach his
absurdities. Absurdities repel students and, accordingly, physics
departments close. Where there are no physics departments, Einstein
rules forever:

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/01/the-blind-men-and-the-elephant
"Regarding higher education, a third of Britain's university physics
departments have closed in the last few years."

Pentcho Valev wrote:

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909857880
"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."

A somewhat outdated account of the situation. Relativists are no
longer relativists (they have all left the sinking ship recently) and,
accordingly, do not have to admit anything. Antirelativists reclaiming
old Newtonian physics are marginalised automatically, without any
quarrel - the world of Postscientism simply does not hear their wails.
Imagine a musician reclaiming this kind of music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqgHCksUQok (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1OS0bSsI_k (Part 2)
(Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Giuseppe Tartini "The Devil's Trill")

This musician would likewise be marginalised automatically in the
world of rap music.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com