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> In a chapter called Beyond String Theory in his book The Trouble With
> Physics: The Rise Of String Thory, The Fall of Science, And What Comes
> Next, Lee Smolin writes:
>
> ". . . I believe there is something basic we are all missing, some
> wrong assumption we are all making. If this is so, then we need to
> isolate the wrong assumption and replace it with a new idea. What
> could this wrong assumption be?"
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/ :
"...light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c
which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body."
See also:
http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
"Shatter this postulate [of constancy of the speed of light], and modern
physics becomes an elaborate farce!"
Einstein: "If the speed of light is the least bit affected by the speed of
the light source, then my whole theory of relativity and theory of gravity
is false."
Einstein: "I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the
field concept,i.e., on continuous structures. In that case, nothing remains
of my entire castle in the air, gravitation theory included, [and of] the
rest of modern physics."
Pentcho Valev
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