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X Relativity Relativity came at an auspicious moment. Professional scientists
had already made minor errors before 1905, but it was the major error of
Relativity which set Modern Physics on its way to ever more nonsense. The
beauty of Relativity was that it was self-referencing in that, claiming no
absolute space, it seemed to claim no absolute truth. Modern Physics, the new
religion, then set upon a lucrative half-century of profitable obfuscation
before the chickens came home to roost in 1971 when Shirley Williams, then a
Member of Parliament and later (1976-9) Secretary of State for Education and
Science, spelled out an unmistakable warning in The Times, 27feb71; For the scientists, the party is over
.... Until fairly recently no one has asked any awkward questions .... Yet
there is a growing suspicion about scientists and their discoveries .... It
is within this drastically altered climate that the dramatic decline in
expenditure on scientific research in Britain is taking place. Much like the incessant, superficially profound, content-free,
intoned propaganda for the Holy Ghost, the unremitting propaganda for Modern
Physics blinds us to a rational appraisal of its content, including its
philosophical content. After much reading of Einstein, Heisenberg, Born and
the rest, I have been forced to conclude that the intellectual level of
Modern Physics, and of the bizarre Philosophy of Science that it has spawned,
is shallow. (See my letter, The Betrayal of Science by Modern Physics,
re-published as appendix 5.) Philosophers, who should have known better, but
who preferred to pick up the crumbs of funding falling from the wealthy
Modern Physics table, now buttress a nonsensical Modern Physics with a
nonsensical Philosophy of Science. The Catt Anomaly goes to the core of all this nonsense, since
Einstein and the rest put electromagnetism at the centre of Modern Physics. The special theory of relativity owes
its origin to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field - written by Einstein in P. A. Schilpp's
book "Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist", pub. Library of
Living Philosophers 1949, p62. If none of the Modern Physics Wallahs can answer the most simple
question about where the electric charge comes from, then we can dismiss
their Quarks, Strangeness, Neutrinos and the rest as hog-wash. I have to emphasise this extraordinary principle. If a band of
Wallahs were to put out unremitting propaganda that they were all brilliant
and revered mathematicians, but persistently failed to agree on the sum of 2
plus 2, then you would dismiss everything they said; even more so if, half of
them having given the answer three and the other half five, they followed up
by saying that they were in agreement! So much for the whole 'scientific'
razzmatazz called Modern Physics. The apparent pretence that Pepper and
McEwan agree means that the Modern Physics pundits are stocking their armoury
with dishonesty as well as ignorance. |
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