• Modern Physics as an Absolute Waste of Money

    From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 3 10:48:00 2023
    Sabine Hossenfelder: "I want to tell you how particle physicists are wasting your money." https://youtu.be/9qqEU1Q-gYE?t=3

    The more-than-a-century reign of the insane ideology called "relativity" is by far the biggest waste of money in the history of science. The texts below imply that, if the speed of light is variable (it is!), modern physics, predicated on Einstein's 1905
    constant-speed-of-light falsehood, is long dead (exists in a zombie state) and is therefore an absolute waste of money:

    "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

    "If there's one thing every schoolboy knows about Einstein and his theory of relativity, it is that the speed of light in vacuum is constant. No matter what the circumstances, light in vacuum travels at the same speed...The speed of light is the very
    keystone of physics, the seemingly sure foundation upon which every modern cosmological theory is built, the yardstick by which everything in the universe is measured...The constancy of the speed of light has been woven into the very fabric of physics,
    into the way physics equations are written, even into the notation used. Nowadays, to "vary" the speed of light is not even a swear word: It is simply not present in the vocabulary of physics." https://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Speed-Light-Speculation/
    dp/0738205257

    "The whole of physics is predicated on the constancy of the speed of light...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

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  • From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 3 16:31:27 2023
    Einsteinians are incomparable money wasters. Just a few examples:

    "Jim Al-Khalili on a £2m mission to reveal secrets of time" https://thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-ready-to-tackle-the-nature-of-time-in-2-1m-project-cv69ssxpg

    Einsteinians Mark Srednicki and Joseph Polchinski were given a $1.32 million grant to say whether Einstein was wrong: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2013/013823/questioning-einstein

    They found the joke extremely amusing, laughed breathlessly, took the money and said that Einstein was not wrong:

    http://www.news.ucsb.edu/sites/www.news.ucsb.edu/files/styles/article_horizontal/public/images/2013/Srednicki%20and%20Polchinski.jpg

    Absolute champions are, of course, LIGO fakers:

    "Nine scientists just won an award that's worth more than a Nobel Prize, earning a cool $1 million for their cutting-edge research. Called the Kavli Prize, these lofty awards... [...] The three winners in astrophysics this year were Ronald Drever, Kip
    Thorne, and Rainer Weiss. The trio won for detecting the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves — arguably the most remarkable scientific achievement of the year, if not the past 100 years. "This detection has, in a single stroke and for
    the first time, validated Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity for very strong fields..." http://www.techinsider.io/kavli-prize-winners-2016-6

    "Weiss will share the $1.2 million prize with Kip Thorne, Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, emeritus; and Ronald Drever, emeritus professor of physics at Caltech. Together, they are cited by the Shaw Foundation “for
    conceiving and designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window..." http://news.mit.edu/2016/rainer-weiss-awarded-shaw-prize-astronomy-0601

    "LIGO Gravitational Wave Researchers to Divide $3 Million. The three ringleaders of the gravitational-wave experiment, known as LIGO, Ronald P. Drever and Kip. S. Thorne of the California Institute of Technology, and Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts
    Institute of Technology, will split $1 million. The other $2 million will be split among 1,012 scientists who were authors of the article in Physical Review Letters, or who made major contributions to the study of gravitational waves." http://www.nytimes.
    com/2016/05/04/science/ligo-gravitational-wave-breakthrough-prize-yuri-milner.html

    "In addition to a cash award of $500 000, to be shared equally between Drever, Thorne and Weiss, each of the three will receive a gold medal and a citation that reads: The Gruber Foundation proudly presents the 2016 Cosmology Prize to Rainer Weiss, Kip
    Thorne, Ronald Drever, and the entire LIGO team for pursuing a vision to observe the universe in gravitational waves, leading to a first detection that emanated from the collision of two black holes." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/iau-
    ro2050416.php

    "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves." https://www.
    nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2017/summary/

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