EINSTEINIANA AS PARODY

http://www.newsweek.com/id/35577
"Isaacson brings out something that scholars have only recently
grasped, and which most textbooks get wrong: Einstein did not discover
special relativity because of the Michelson-Morley experiment."

Soon the same scholars will discover both that no eclipse experiment
has ever confirmed Divine Albert's Divine Theory and that "le monde
entier a cru pendant plus de cinquante ans à une théorie non
vérifiée":

http://www.cieletespace.fr/evenement...taient-fausses

http://www.cieletespaceradio.fr/inde...-la-relativite

Pentcho Valev

On Jul 1, 8:14*pm, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/35577
"Isaacson brings out something that scholars have only recently
grasped, and which most textbooks get wrong: Einstein did not discover
special relativity because of the Michelson-Morley experiment."

Soon the same scholars will discover both that no eclipse experiment
has ever confirmed Divine Albert's Divine Theory and that "le monde
entier a cru pendant plus de cinquante ans à une théorie non
vérifiée":

http://www.cieletespace.fr/evenement...ves-taient-fau...

http://www.cieletespaceradio.fr/inde...0-histoire-des...

Pentcho Valev


xxein: No experiment can confirm a theory/physics into a physic.

What you and many others do is to try to twist the physic into your
own fallible logic/theory. That would be fine if it had legs to stand
upon. You cannot provide even a sketch of those legs.

On Jul 2, 2:14*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/35577
"Isaacson brings out something that scholars have only recently
grasped, and which most textbooks get wrong: Einstein did not discover
special relativity because of the Michelson-Morley experiment."

Soon the same scholars will discover both that no eclipse experiment
has ever confirmed Divine Albert's Divine Theory and that "le monde
entier a cru pendant plus de cinquante ans à une théorie non
vérifiée":

http://www.cieletespace.fr/evenement...taient-fausses

http://www.cieletespaceradio.fr/inde...-la-relativite

The forms Einsteiniana takes sometimes are so idiotic that calling it
"parody" is misleading:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/...804.0016v2.pdf

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkLLXhONvQ

Perhaps Einsteiniana's closest match is the Ministry of Silly Walks;
at least the financial difficulties Einsteiniana has been experiencing
lately are quite similar:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Jyu6eioZ4
"Silly Walks Applicant: "Well sir, I have a silly walk and I'd like to
obtain a Government grant to help me develop it....I think that with
Government backing I could make it very silly." Silly Walks Director:
"Mr Pudey, the very real problem is one of money. I'm afraid that the
Ministry of Silly Walks is no longer getting the kind of support it
needs. You see there's Defence, Social Security, Health, Housing,
Education, Silly Walks ... they're all supposed to get the same. But
last year, the Government spent less on the Ministry of Silly Walks
than it did on National Defence! Now we get 348,000,000 a year, which
is supposed to be spent on all our available products."

Pentcho Valev

On Jul 9, 11:30Â*pm, Pentcho Valev wrote:
The forms Einsteiniana takes sometimes are so idiotic that calling it
"parody" is misleading:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/...804.0016v2.pdf

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkLLXhONvQ

Perhaps Einsteiniana's closest match is the Ministry of Silly Walks;
at least the financial difficulties Einsteiniana has been experiencing
lately are quite similar:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Jyu6eioZ4
"Silly Walks Applicant: "Well sir, I have a silly walk and I'd like to
obtain a Government grant to help me develop it....I think that with
Government backing I could make it very silly." Silly Walks Director:
"Mr Pudey, the very real problem is one of money. I'm afraid that the
Ministry of Silly Walks is no longer getting the kind of support it
needs. You see there's Defence, Social Security, Health, Housing,
Education, Silly Walks ... they're all supposed to get the same. But
last year, the Government spent less on the Ministry of Silly Walks
than it did on National Defence! Now we get 348,000,000 a year, which
is supposed to be spent on all our available products."

http://maisonneuve.org/index.php?&pa...rticle_id=2934
"CRISES + PARADOX = REVOLUTION. WELCOME TO THE PERIMETER INSTITUTE
WHERE TODAY'S EINSTEINS ARE HARD AT WORK. It’s lunchtime at the Black
Hole Bistro, an in-house restaurant at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute
for Theoretical Physics....from the questionable authenticity of the
buffet chicken to the union of quantum mechanics and general
relativity.....A successful soufflé of particles with gravity, so to
speak, would amount to nothing less than the “theory of everything,�
or TOE, that has eluded physicists ever since their ancestor Einstein
lay on his deathbed frantically running the equations in his
head....England’s Lucien Hardy, regularly arrives at Perimeter just in
time for lunch....Today it was Markopoulou-Kalamara, 36, who was
lamenting a physicist-husband gone mad....Markopoulou-Kalamara is the
only female faculty member at Perimeter. She makes efforts to tone
down her exuberant European elegance to match the company she keeps—
that is, variously aggressive, cavalier and nerdy male
physicists.....Markopoulou-Kalamara gives a shrug. Physicists are
forever thinking they’ve “got it,� she says. Or they are tormented
because they don’t. This is the physicist’s bipolar yo-yo of euphoria
and despair. “We need to have a psychiatrist in residence,� she says.
“Somebody is always in a state of crisis over something.� A
psychiatrist is one of the few luxuries not afforded the denizens of
Perimeter, a world-class brain trust for physics established in 2000
through the vision and benevolence of Mike Lazaridis, founder,
president and co-chief executive officer of Research In Motion
(Lazaridis’ C$100 million endowment has since been augmented by two
RIM colleagues, as well as municipal, provincial and federal
government funding, and an impressive roster of private and corporate
donors). Every physicist at Perimeter has free use of a BlackBerry,
though, as Smolin laments, “the phone bill isn’t covered.�.....For
example, how can Alice and Bob shake hands and physically experience
the handshaking even though they are separated by thousands of
kilometres? Physicists have generated naughtier variations of inquiry
into Alice and Bob’s interaction.).....A relaxed state of mind can be
the precursor to brilliant insight.....The blackboards are everywhere.
“There is a subtle pressure—you should be calculating,� admits former
executive director Howard Burton, who was recruited by
Lazaridis.....All are crammed with alphanumeric sentences that speak
only to those fluent in the language. Occasionally a few recognizable
phrases pop out, revealing if not the theory of everything then at
least a union between the two cultures of science and art. One
blackboard spells out, “Energy = mass x speed of light�; while another
declares, “I Love Keats.�.....where a blackboard doesn’t lurk around
the corner, a painting or piece of sculpture does.....Lee Smolin, 52,
is a stylishly unkempt character in ubiquitous black with an
observer’s alert eyes. A native New Yorker, Smolin is known for his
theory of “cosmological natural selection� which argues that Darwin’s
explanation for natural selection is also the explanation for the
selection of laws governing the universe......Moffat is known in the
field as a creative iconoclast. He’s also an artist who occasionally
arrives at work with a painting under his arm. “This is what makes
physics such an intellectual challenge,� Moffat continues. “It’s
elegant and imaginative, but the theories must check with data.�
Einstein once gave much the same evaluation: “If you wish to learn
from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he
uses,� he said in a lecture, “I would give you the following piece of
advice: Don’t listen to his words, examine his
achievements.�.......shooting particles through particles may create
“sparticles,� a hypothetical super-small supersymmetric species of
particle whose existence would score a few points for string
theory.....Smolin argues in his book that a premature belief in string
theory, an untested theory dominating the field of unification theory
within physics for decades now, threatens to damage the credibility of
the enterprise.....The posh digs and deep funding pockets Perimeter
enjoys are traditionally reserved for more eminent scientists higher
up the funding food chain......Lazaridis’ answer was Perimeter, where
theoretical physicists are supported to the max so they can
concentrate on thinking, calculating and thinking some
more.....Theoretical physicists are well aware that some people deem
spending millions on this kind of intellectual freedom a
waste.....“Science,� he says, “is a bargain.�......In the physics
community at large, the string theory camp is particularly closed off,
driven by egos and elitism. Graduate students in their prime slave
away, “heads down, bum up, working to get results to satisfy their
advisors,� Bilson-Thompson says. “It’s a shame that so many people
work on string theory at the expense of other directions,�....“Lee
Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics is another anti-string theory
jeremiad,� Susskind wrote, adding: Smolin is a mid-level theoretical
physicist, but his popular book-writing activities and the related
promotional hustling have given him a platform high above that merited
by his physics accomplishments....Smolin never seems to notice that he
is standing astride the bridge of a sunken ship. He cannot understand
why the best physicists in the world don’t pay as much attention to
loop gravity as they do to string theory....“If you want to see a
fight,� Smolin says over lunch to cosmologist Max Tegmark (visiting
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and expecting to see
some fireworks among the diversity of Perimeter physicists), “then
come back when Lenny is here....Arkani-Hamed, raised in Toronto and a
University of Toronto alumnus, is a motorcycle-riding physicist who
became a fully tenured Harvard professor at the tender age of 30 (he’s
now 35). He’s known to show up for his lectures only when he feels
like it.....The reason physicists thrive on the anxiety of crises and
paradox, Arkani-Hamed explains, “is because when there are no crises
and paradox, somebody else has understood something, which means
there’s nothing for you to do. But that’s happily not the situation
today. The subject is filled with crises and paradox.....having taken
a look at Arkani-Hamed’s website, he was befuddled; he couldn’t
understand a thing. Physics doesn’t always translate so easily into
lay speak, he lamented. If only the reporter had put a few more
kilojoules into the research, he might have discovered that that very
incomprehensibility is the story: the state of the union in physics,
so to speak, is such that even the physicists can’t quite grock the
galactic quandary they’ve gotten themselves into. Nowhere was this
comprehension gap more evident than at the annual international
strings conference in 2005, where Leonard Susskind expounded
unintelligibly on an unintelligible subject, and then concluded with
the disclaimer: “Don’t ask me to explain what I just said.�....A few
weeks after her husband’s epiphany about quantum gravity, Markopoulou-
Kalamara left him alone in Waterloo and decamped to Toronto for the
weekend. “He was getting unbearable,� she says....Markopoulou-
Kalamara, meanwhile, has just bitten off another chunk of a
fundamental question. “I look forward to a few months of confusion,�
she says....As for Smolin, he said “Hello� when Susskind arrived for
his visit at Perimeter in March."

Pentcho Valev