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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:58:12 -0700 (PDT), Pentcho Valev
<pvalev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Jul 18, 4:07 pm, ukastronomy <martin_piers_nichol...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> On 18 Jul, 14:50, Pentcho Valev <pva...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jul 16, 4:53 pm, ukastronomy <martin_piers_nichol...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote in sci.astro:
>>......................
>> I still don't understand why you bother posting similar material to
>> these groups again and again and again. The people here are not the
>> people you need to convince and the danger is that you are seen as
>> obsessed with the matter to the exclusion of many other, equally
>> interesting, scientific issues/cover-ups/errors.
>>
>> Please share your motivation with the group.
>
>Please consider the following quotation but pay some more attention to
>what is said about "later writers":
>
>http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
>John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as
>evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost
>universally use it as support for the light postulate of special
>relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE
>WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT
>POSTULATE."
It's history. History deals about things which are over and gone.
While history may be quite interesting if one cares,
the main purpose of history is to feed the historians.
Pentcho, we are living in 2008 now. Wake up.
>
>We have a typical Goebbels' situation: "later writers" have repeated a
>lie countless times and the world is now used to it, although the
>truth is almost obvious. What can I do? Repeating the obvious truth
>seems to be the only possible reaction.
>.....
What truth, Pentcho?
You have not demonstrated a single little tiny bit of truth yet.
Even hanson is better, regarding that.
hanson says, relativity is there to boost "Einstein Watch" sales:
http://www.wackyplanet.com/einstein-relativity-watch.html
How right he is.
w.
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