Pentcho Valev
2005-12-12 07:12:58 UTC
Bryan Wallace http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm :
"This erection of higher and higher barriers to the comprehension of
scientific affairs is a threat to an essential characteristic of
science, its openness to outside examination and appraisal....Because
of this, modern theoretical physics has become to a large degree,
little more than an elaborate farce....In Galileo's time it was heresy
to claim there was evidence that the Earth went around the Sun, and in
our time it is heresy to argue that there is evidence that the speed of
light in space is not constant for all observers, no matter how fast
they are moving, as predicted by Prof. Albert Einstein's sacred 1905
Special Relativity Theory....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!....I expect that the scientists of the future will
consider the dominant abstract physics theories of our time in much the
same light as we now consider the Medieval theories of how many angels
can dance on the head of a pin or that the Earth stands still and the
Universe moves around it."
The excerpts from the martyr's book suggest that a single false premise
can convert a whole science into a farce. In fact, this syndrome is an
essential feature of theoretical science. The introduction of a false
premise generates artefacts, problems, solutions to the problems etc. -
stuff for the initiated to proliferate and for zombies to learn by
rote. So the premise "Heat is an indestructible substance" and its
corollary, the second law of thermodynamics, are just as important as
Einstein's idiocy:
http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev4.htm
Amazingly, classical electrostatics is also based on a false premise:
All forces acting in the system under consideration are conservative
(electrical). See more in
http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev2.htm
Pentcho Valev
"This erection of higher and higher barriers to the comprehension of
scientific affairs is a threat to an essential characteristic of
science, its openness to outside examination and appraisal....Because
of this, modern theoretical physics has become to a large degree,
little more than an elaborate farce....In Galileo's time it was heresy
to claim there was evidence that the Earth went around the Sun, and in
our time it is heresy to argue that there is evidence that the speed of
light in space is not constant for all observers, no matter how fast
they are moving, as predicted by Prof. Albert Einstein's sacred 1905
Special Relativity Theory....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!....I expect that the scientists of the future will
consider the dominant abstract physics theories of our time in much the
same light as we now consider the Medieval theories of how many angels
can dance on the head of a pin or that the Earth stands still and the
Universe moves around it."
The excerpts from the martyr's book suggest that a single false premise
can convert a whole science into a farce. In fact, this syndrome is an
essential feature of theoretical science. The introduction of a false
premise generates artefacts, problems, solutions to the problems etc. -
stuff for the initiated to proliferate and for zombies to learn by
rote. So the premise "Heat is an indestructible substance" and its
corollary, the second law of thermodynamics, are just as important as
Einstein's idiocy:
http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev4.htm
Amazingly, classical electrostatics is also based on a false premise:
All forces acting in the system under consideration are conservative
(electrical). See more in
http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev2.htm
Pentcho Valev