On Apr 26, 7:48*am, "Dirk Van de moortel" dirkvandemoor...@ThankS-NO-
SperM.hotmail.com wrote:
Nice read:
* *http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1162

* *"There's nothing quite like Einstein and his theories of
* * relativity to bring out the doubters, the cranks and the
* * outright crackpots. Do they have a point? Was Einstein
* * a fake?"


Einstein was extremely good in understanding the foundational problems
of physics and that enabled him to unite already developed scattered
concepts into a theory by adding a couple postulates of his own.

Both his theories are brilliant but the failure of the academic
establishemnt has been to show how these theories connect to physical
reality. There are reasons this is not done, at the expense of the
theories getting attacked constantly. The reasons fall in the general
area of scientific obscurantism for purposes one can guess.

Most students I remmebr had poroblems vusualizing 3-D geometrical
objects and Einstein asks people to accept 4-D manifolds. Unless the
theories are popularized in a braod sense, they will die in the future
in lieu of some theistic creationist, teleological physics, like a new
scholastic philosophy, which has a lot of support in US by religious
groups.

I think Relativists are the ones who do the most harm to Relativity,
not the cranks and the cooks. String theopry is the new religion,
Relativity is dying.

Mike

P.S Dirt, after solving for the relativistic golden ration , this is
the best you could come up with? How about showing that according to
relativity, someone can know the lotto numbers before they are drawn?











The article mentions this newsgroup and a few well
known names.

Anyone any idea about the name of that "giant hulk of
a guy who really put the fear of physical harm into some
of the folks over there"? I'm sure he's present in this
newsgroup...

Enjoy reading,
Dirk Vdm