The "root of all the evil" in modern physics is Einstein's 1905 false constant-speed-of-light axiom. Physicists know that, start telling the truth sometimes, but then stop halfway. Modern physics is predicated on the falsehood and would collapse without
it. In this regard, telling the truth is suicidal:

"Lee [Smolin] and I discussed these paradoxes at great length for many months, starting in January 2001. We would meet in cafés in South Kensington or Holland Park to mull over the problem. THE ROOT OF ALL THE EVIL WAS CLEARLY SPECIAL RELATIVITY. All
these paradoxes resulted from well known effects such as length contraction, time dilation, or E=mc^2, all basic predictions of special relativity. And all denied the possibility of establishing a well-defined border, common to all observers, capable of
containing new quantum gravitational effects." Joao Magueijo, Faster Than the Speed of Light, p. 250 http://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Speed-Light-Speculation/dp/0738205257

"He opened by explaining how Einstein's theory of relativity is the foundation of every other theory in modern physics and that the assumption that the speed of light is constant is the foundation of that theory. Thus a constant speed of light is
embedded in all of modern physics and to propose a varying speed of light (VSL) is worse than swearing! It is like proposing a language without vowels." http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/VSLRevPrnt.html

"The whole of physics is predicated on the constancy of the speed of light," Joao Magueijo, a cosmologist at Imperial College London and pioneer of the theory of variable light speed, told Motherboard. "So we had to find ways to change the speed of light
without wrecking the whole thing too much." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q87gk/light-speed-slowed

The concept of VARIABLE wavelength of light https://youtu.be/3mJTRXCMU6o?t=77 is a direct corollary of Einstein's constant-speed-of-light falsehood (Newton’s variable speed of light entails CONSTANT wavelength) but theoretical physicists prefer to
derive it in this (quite silly) way:

Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time", Chapter 3: "Now imagine a source of light at a constant distance from us, such as a star, emitting waves of light at a constant wavelength. Obviously the wavelength of the waves we receive will be the same as
the wavelength at which they are emitted (the gravitational field of the galaxy will not be large enough to have a significant effect). Suppose now that the source starts moving toward us. When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us,
so the distance between wave crests will be smaller than when the star was stationary." http://www.fisica.net/relatividade/stephen_hawking_a_brief_history_of_time.pdf

VARIABLE wavelength of light violates the principle of relativity. If the wavelength varied, the emitter would measure the variations inside his spaceship and so would know his speed without looking outside.

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The metastases of Einstein's false constant-speed-of-light axiom definitively ruined physics, but this branch of science was already in agony in 1905, overwhelmed by the metastases of another false axiom: the second law of thermodynamics.

The second law of thermodynamics: "Heat cannot spontaneously flow from cold regions to hot regions without external work being performed on the system" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

Heat flows from the cold surroundings to the hot water bridge (no external work being performed):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=U7PeezOzprE

"The bridge is hot" https://youtu.be/hPM1l93mGZw?t=525

Water in an electric field automatically becomes a perpetual-motion machine of the second kind. Vigorous motion is generated that can do work (e.g. by rotating waterwheels) at the expense of ambient heat (no other source of usable energy), in violation
of the second law of thermodynamics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17UD1goTFhQ

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Einstein's false constant-speed-of-light axiom gave birth to unprecedented absurdities, immeasurably more idiotic than (picking a random example) flat-earth myths. So Einsteinians gloriously jump, within a minute of their experienced time, sixty million
years ahead in the future, and trap unlimitedly long objects, in a compressed state, inside unlimitedly short containers:

Thibault Damour: "The paradigm of the special relativistic upheaval of the usual concept of time is the twin paradox. Let us emphasize that this striking example of time dilation proves that time travel (towards the future) is possible. As a gedanken
experiment (if we neglect practicalities such as the technology needed for reaching velocities comparable to the velocity of light, the cost of the fuel and the capacity of the traveller to sustain high accelerations), it shows that a sentient being can
jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth. This is a clear way of realizing that the future "already exists" (as we can
experience it "in a minute")." http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf

"These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. [...] So, as the pole passes through the
barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. [...] If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring
back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be TRAPPED IN A COMPRESSED STATE inside the barn." http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html

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