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Re: Was Einstein totally and completely wrong?

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:52
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On 17 Sept, 06:25, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
sci.physics:
> Alen wrote:
> > On Sep 16, 1:55 pm, "Bill Hobba" <rubb...@junk.com> wrote:
> >> See the following ancient but IMHO still excellent
> >> post by Tom Roberts: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/a1b1aa766a22394b?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1
>
> I wrote that more than 15 years ago, when I was just beginning to become
> re-interested in physics after a hiatus of many years. I had A LOT to
> learn at that time, and I cringe a bit whenever Bill posts a reference
> to it. While it displays the basic idea, its attempt at rigor fails. It
> was indeed based on "dimly remembered ideas from graduate school" (at
> the time ~20 years earlier, so they must have stuck pretty well but not
> perfectly (:-)).

Don't worry Roberts Roberts people will understand your problem. 15
years ago you started studying physics and naturally you could not
know anything about the discovery of Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond and Jong-
Ping Hsu. However in 2006 you were educated enough and even became a
coauthor:

http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/34d4b543c9ed073e?

So when your student Dirk Moortel started glorifying you, nobody
protested:

http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/21a8122a2f8e1d44?

Pentcho Valev
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Subject: Re: Was Einstein totally and completely wrong?
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:52:29 -0700
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