SHOCK AND HORROR AND VARIABLE SPEED OF LIGHT
A few years ago Einstein's hypnotists found it suitable to make some
more money by challenging Einstein's principle of constancy of the
speed of light:
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=5538
Paul Davies: "Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 is the only scientific
formula known to just about everyone. The "c" here stands for the
speed of light. It is one of the most fundamental of the basic
constants of physics. Or is it? In recent years a few maverick
scientists have claimed that the speed of light might not be constant
at all. Shock, horror! Does this mean the next Great Revolution in
Science is just around the corner?"
The "maverick scientists" created various "Variable Speed of Light"
theories, became famous, got enough money and of course there was no
Great Revolution in Science around the corner. So now there are no
shock and horror in Einstein's cult and the selfsame Paul Davies can
happily return to the original idiocy based on Einstein's false
principle of constancy of the speed of light:
http://www.asuwebdevil.com/issues/2007/02/23/news/699963
"For this prof, it's only a matter of time.....Davies said an object
traveling at a given speed experiences time slower relative to a
stationary object. The faster the object moves, the slower it
experiences time, he said. If a man traveled at 99 percent the speed
of light for a certain amount of time to a point in space, then turned
around and came back, he would find people on Earth aged years more
than he did."
There is another reason why relativity hypnotists experience so much
happiness now. The "maverick scientists" managed to discredit the true
principle of variability of the speed of light (c'=c(1+V/c^2) or c'=c
+v) that Einstein himself introduced when he did not know how else to
explain the gravitational redshift. So when one tries to explain that
the speed of light is variable the standard reaction is something like
this: "What? Variable speed of light? Magueijo's theory? That is not
serious!"
Pentcho Valev
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