On Aug 4, 12:32 pm, Pentcho Valev wrote:
For more than a year almost all relatively clever hypnotists in
Einstein criminal cult have been silent about the problems of
theoretical physics and busy leaving sinking ships. John Baez is the
only one who confessed in public:

http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_5.html
John Baez: "On the one hand we have the Standard Model, which tries to
explain all the forces except gravity, and takes quantum mechanics
into account. On the other hand we have General Relativity, which
tries to explain gravity, and does not take quantum mechanics into
account. Both theories seem to be more or less on the right track —
but until we somehow fit them together, or completely discard one or
both, our picture of the world will be deeply schizophrenic.....I
realized I didn't have enough confidence in either theory to engage in
these heated debates. I also realized that there were other questions
to work on: questions where I could actually tell when I was on the
right track, questions where researchers cooperate more and fight
less. So, I eventually decided to quit working on quantum gravity."

Yet it seems hypnotists break the silence at their meetings and from
time to time information about the magnitude of the crisis gets
available:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=114140
"Most remarkable about the talk is that it is a stinging critizism of
contemporary theoretical physics without actually ever mentioning it.
Rovelli called Baez on that asking wether what he had just presented
didn't imply that the theoretical physics of the last 25 years was
"junk". To which John baez replied after some hesitation "You said
it"."

Of course John Baez the Educator would not have called Einsteiniana's
science "schizophrenic" and "junk" if money coming from NASA and
possibly other sources had not disappeared so unexpectedly:

http://einstein.stanford.edu/highlights/status1.html
"In March 2008 at NASA's invitation, we submitted a proposal to the
Science Mission Directorate, Astrophysics Division Senior Review of
Operating Missions (Sr. Review), requesting a final 18-month (October
2008 through March 2010), $3.8M extension of GP-B to complete the data
analysis and publish the results. In April, as part of the Sr. Review
process, GP-B Principal Investigator, Francis Everitt, and Program
Manager, William Bencze, made a presentation to the Sr. Review
Committee at NASA Headquarters, where it appeared to have been
favorably received. Thus, we were greatly surprised last week to
discover that the Sr. Review had recommended that NASA not grant our
final funding extension, particularly since another NASA committee—the
GP-B Science Advisory Committee (SAC), chaired by relativistic
physicist Clifford Will—stated in its report following the November
2007 meeting: “The SAC was impressed with the truly extraordinary
progress that has been made in data analysis since SAC-16 [Mar 2007] …
and we now agree that GP-B is on an accelerating path toward reaching
good science results."

Einsteiniana plus no money. Oxymoron. The travelling twin returns
younger, the 80m long pole is safely trapped inside the 40m long barn,
the bug from the bug-rivet paradox is both dead and alive, and yet
nobody is paying for that. Tragedy.

Pentcho Valev