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On 2023-08-14 15:37:44 +0000, The Starmaker said:

> 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?

That's hardly relevant. Elizabeth Holmes is a fraud. I don't suggest 
that Paul Davies has done anything criminal; he's just stupider than 
his reputation might lead you to think, and specifically about 
chemistry -- I have no opinion about the quality of his physics.


-- 
athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots

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        Re: eisnetein culture Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 09:19 +0200
          Re: eisnetein culture The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-08-14 08:37 -0700
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              Re: eisnetein culture Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com> - 2023-08-14 18:26 +0200
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