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Old February 20th 15, 08:32 AM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default EATING BOXER SHORTS FOR EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY

http://www.jimal-khalili.com/blog/fa...-of-light.html
JIM AL-KHALILI: "...regarding the latest news from the Opera neutrino experiment. It's entirely my own fault. After the first announcement back in September I volunteered on Twitter, then on BBC television to eat my boxer shorts on live TV if this result is proven to be right. Now, many people mistakenly believe that this second repeated experiment is the confirmation needed for me to fetch the ketchup." PENTCHO VALEV (comment): "Jim Al-Khalili, neutrinos may or may not have exceeded the speed of light and yet I am afraid you will have to eat your boxer shorts some day. Two experiments - that of Michelson-Morley and that of Pound-Rebka - show that the speed of light varies with v, the speed of the emitter relative to the observer, in accordance with the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's emission theory of light...."

Eventually Einsteinians solved all problems by somehow discovering a "loose cable" and punishing bad OPERA scientists, but Jim Al-Khalili remained embarrassed and even published a strange book:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Einstein-.../dp/1782400451
What If Einstein Was Wrong? Brian Clegg, Jim Al-Khalili: "It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that Einstein could get it wrong, because science is not about absolute truth..."

Jim Al-Khalili would not eat his boxer shorts for Einstein's relativity anymore. He is now an expert in quantum mechanics so when recently the constancy of the speed of light was disproved, he did not react at all and his shorts remained intact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-fGNxxmSE
"A team of Scottish scientists has made light rays travel slower than the speed of light."

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6224/857.abstract
Science: "Spatially structured photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light"

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