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Old October 3rd 15, 05:27 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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George Ellis is going to fiercely celebrate Einstein's general relativity:

https://philippelefloch.wordpress.com/gr-celebration/
GENERAL RELATIVITY: A CELEBRATION OF THE 100th ANNIVERSARY – Paris, November 16 to 20, 2015. Georges Ellis (Cape Town) The Steps Along The Way Whereby Einstein's General Theory Enabled The Rise of Present Day Cosmology

On the other hand, George Ellis is up against Einstein's special relativity:

https://www.newscientist.com/article...wards-in-time/
New Scientist: "[George] Ellis is up against one of the most successful theories in physics: special relativity. It revealed that there's no such thing as objective simultaneity. Although you might have seen three things happen in a particular order – 
A, then B, then C – someone moving 
at a different velocity could have seen 
it a different way – C, then B, then A. 
In other words, without simultaneity there is no way of specifying what things happened "now". And if not "now", what is moving through time? Rescuing an objective "now" is a daunting task."

In short, welcome to Einstein's schizophrenic world:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwe...hapter2.9.html
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary."

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