WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS?
Some time ago Lee Smolin asked "Where are the Einsteinians?" and
revealed the ultimate cause for his concern:
http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.3/smolin.htm Lee Smolin: "Quantum
theory was not the only theory that bothered Einstein. Few people have
appreciated how dissatisfied he was with his own theories of
relativity. Special relativity grew out of Einstein's insight that the
laws of electromagnetism cannot depend on relative motion and that the
speed of light therefore must be always the same, no matter how the
source or the observer moves. Among the consequences of that theory
are that energy and mass are equivalent (the now-legendary
relationship E = mc2) and that time and distance are relative, not
absolute. SPECIAL RELATIVITY WAS THE RESULT OF 10 YEARS OF
INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE, YET EINSTEIN HAD CONVINCED HIMSELF IT WAS WRONG
within two years of publishing it."
The question "Where are the Einsteinians?" is getting more and more
relevant. A search in Internet would show that important Einsteinians
have deleted dithyrambic texts from their websites, constantly hint at
"small relativity violations", "variable speed of light", "emission
theory of light", "signals faster than light" etc. and are apparently
waiting for something. So another relevant question is: Waiting for
what? Perhaps important Einsteinians have realised that the old
principle "Salaries for worshipping Einstein" will soon be revoked.
Logically (Einsteinians are great logicians), the new principle will
be "Salaries for refuting Einstein". And Einsteinians are waiting for
its promulgation.
Pentcho Valev
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