Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: eisnetein culture Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:37:44 -0700 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <64DA4A48.202D@ix.netcom.com> References: <64D555DC.B0C@ix.netcom.com> <60d0d702-5a53-48da-b493-b349a72a8488n@googlegroups.com> <64D97DE0.4B40@ix.netcom.com> <64D985A9.EB9@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="2628606"; posting-host="nLYg9UBeoMWa070gP9wQcw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:DQf1DP7yzyi486T4L9Y042LMKbSoMjG3PuL57k7hGz4= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 230814-0, 08/13/2023), Outbound message X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:617666 Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: > > On 2023-08-14 01:38:49 +0000, The Starmaker said: > > > > [ … ] > > > > excerpts: > > > > One of Einstein’s most dearly held concepts – that the speed of light > > is constant – is looking a little fragile. Physicists in Australia > > claim there is good reason to think the speed of light has slowed over > > time. > > > > "Einstein would have absolutely hated this," said Paul Davies of > > Macquarie University in Sydney. > > This is of course the same Paul Davies who is so ignorant of basic > chemistry that he swallowed the nonsense about arsenic-based life. I > suppose he knows more physics than chemistry, but that story ruined any > reputation he might have had as a serious thinker. > > > "His entire theory of relativity was founded on the notion that the > > speed of light is an absolute fixed universal number." > > -- > athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots Is Elizabeth Holmes still in jail? -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.