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Old August 7th 14, 04:20 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY : THE MADNESS OF 20th CENTURY SCIENCE

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf
Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, David Morin, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Example (Twin paradox): Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. Show that B is younger than A when they meet up again. (...) For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow, but enough strangeness occurs during the turning-around period to make A end up older. Note, however, that a discussion of acceleration is not required to quantitatively understand the paradox..."

In 1918 Einstein said just the opposite - since "for the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow", A will be younger at the end of the trip unless "this is more than compensated" by a slower pace of B during the short turn-around period when B experiences acceleration or "gravitational potential":

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dialog...f_rela tivity
Dialog about Objections against the Theory of Relativity, 1918, Albert Einstein: "During the partial processes 2 [traveller moves with constant speed away from sedentary clock] and 4 [traveller moves with constant speed towards sedentary clock] the clock U1 [sedentary clock], going at a velocity v [in the system K'], runs indeed at a slower pace than the resting [in the system K'] clock U2 [travelling clock]. However, this is more than compensated by a faster pace of U1 during partial process 3 [traveller sharply turns around]. According to the general theory of relativity, a clock will go faster the higher the gravitational potential of the location where it is located, and during partial process 3 U2 happens to be located at a higher gravitational potential than U1. The calculation shows that this speeding ahead constitutes exactly twice as much as the lagging behind during the partial processes 2 and 4."

David Morin is a clever Einsteinian - he knows that doublethink is the best method to both kill rationality and suppress any reasonable counter-arguments:

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. (...) It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion ; the more intelligent, the less sane.."

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