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Old October 22nd 08, 03:59 PM posted to sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,fr.sci.physique,fr.sci.astrophysique,sci.astro
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Default WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS?

Dear Pentcho Valev:

On Oct 22, 1:19*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
A more straightforward answer to the question
"Where are the Einsteinians?": Einsteinians
(except for silliest zombies) have all
abandoned Divine Albert's Divine Theory,
explicitly or implicitly, because they now
know that the only reasonable translation of
Einstein's 1954 confession:


Thank you for reciting the painfully obvious.

What you call "Einsteinians", and hanson calls "dingleberries", are
people that know that Einstein's "field theory" is still a useful
abstraction (like Maxwell's theory), and still encounter people that
don't accept that this theory makes successful predictions over a very
wide range of the Universe around us. From just above "molecular" to
just above (or just at) "solar system", it requires no "fudge factors"
or completely separated empirical rules to be applied.

When people get beyond this "head in the sand" problem, the uniform
labels you like to apply cease to apply.

....
http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
Bryan Wallace: "Einstein's special relativity
theory with his second postulate that the
speed of light in space is constant is the
linchpin that holds the whole range of modern
physics theories together.


Incorrect. It is the result of Maxwell's theories. It is not assumed
for all theories.

Shatter this postulate, and modern physics
becomes an elaborate farce!....The speed of
light is c+v."


Fizeau: c_medium + v c

Nothing else has been duplicated in the lab. Your posturing is still
empty.

David A. Smith