On Jul 17, 10:38*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
Of course, money does not always go from Sir Martin to Sir Roger.
Sometimes it goes from Sir Roger to Sir Martin:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3470
"The prize consists of a gold medal and $500,000....Laureates of the
Gruber Cosmology Prize:....2001: Martin Rees for his extraordinary
intuition in unraveling the complexities of the universe.....The Prize
recipients are chosen by the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board. Its
members a Jacqueline Bergeron, Institut d’Astrophysique-CNRS; Peter
Galison, Harvard University; Ronald Ekers, Australia Telescope
National Facility - CSIRO; Andrei Linde, Stanford University; Julio F.
Navarro, University of Victoria; James Peebles, Princeton University;
Roger Penrose, University of Oxford...."

Some members of the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board did not want to
give so much money to Sir Martin because at that time Sir Martin
presented himself as a revolutionary that would rewrite Divine
Albert's Divine Theory and even reject Einstein's 1905 false light
postulate some day:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts
September 9 2001. "A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned
that the laws thought to govern the universe, including Albert
Einsteins theory of relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which
includes Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer
royal, say such laws may only work for our universe but not in others
that are now also thought to exist.....AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION
IS EINSTEINS BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME -
186,000 miles a second in a vacuum.....Rees, Hawking and others are so
concerned at the impact of such ideas that they recently organised a
private conference in Cambridge for more than 30 leading
cosmologists."

However Sir Roger explained to the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board
that Sir Martin had been misled by current fashion and in fact had no
intention to rewrite Divine Albert's Divine Theory, let alone reject
Einstein's 1905 false light postulate. Serenity was reestablished and
the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board gave the money to Sir Martin.

More precisely, Sir Martin had been misled by his friend Paul Davies
who at that time was busy introducing shock and horror in Einstein
zombie world:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/a...ls.php?id=5538
Paul Davies: "Was Einstein wrong? 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 Cosmology Selection Advisory Board explained to Sir Martin that
Einstein zombie world needed no shock and horror, let alone
revolutions around the corner, so the money would be given to Sir
Martin only if he would forget the falsehood of Einstein's 1905 light
postulate forever. Sir Martin took the money and forgot the falsehood
of Einstein's 1905 light postulate forever. Paul Davies also forgot
the falsehood of Einstein's 1905 light postulate forever and the
Cosmology Selection Advisory Board may give him some money soon.

Pentcho Valev