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[ham]

The DLT yahoos like to dis special relativity because Einstein was Jewish. The mathematical inevitability of its conclusions are

What is this idiot talking about?
Inevitability?
PFFT!
They talked like that about Newtonian physics...now it appears Newton comes as third best in a contest for the biggest jokes of all times (according to THEM, the egg-heads with many letters after their names )...and before Newton there was the inevitability of Ptolemy and Aristotle...to the point sages simply ended debates with IPSE DIXIT: if he said so, it must be true...
Oh, we forgot...they probably discarded Newton's theories because he was English...and Aristotle Greek...damn those racists, eh?
Where did Ham get that so far Einstein's theory about space/time has been proven only by comparing atomic clocks on planes or satellites with clocks on the ground, to differences of millionths of a second? Prof. Wolfson's TTC course...
Too bad Wolfson won teaching awards for HIS job, physics...he's not busy posing as 'expert' on phony degree any third grader can spot miles ahead.

When Einstein introduced the cosmological constant in his theory of general relativity he did so because he was guided by the paradigm of the day that the universe was static (i.e. neither contracting nor expanding.) The cosmological constant provided a way of balancing the gravitational contraction caused by matter. It was latter discovered by Edwin Hubble that other galaxies appear to be receding away from us, that the universe was actually expanding. When Einstein heard and fully appreciated these observations, he declared that the inclusion of the cosmological constant was his "biggest blunder."

Einstein's mistake was not a mathematical one but rather a philosophical one made many times over the history of thought. Einstein held too strongly to the belief that the universe was static and thus was unable to appreciate the power of his theory's predictions of a dynamic universe. His error serves as an lesson to all thinkers, that we should never close our minds to new possibilities, even if the thought of the day is that they are impossible. Imagine how history would have been changed had Copernicus refused to accept his belief that the sun was actually the center of the solar system, or had Columbus thought he would have fallen off the edge of the Earth. It is hard to know where the next paradigm shift will come from, but we should always be waiting for it.

One of today's paradigms is that the universe went through a period of rapid expansion, called inflation, early in its history, which would have caused the universe to be spatially flat today. This flatness is one of the motivations behind considering the cosmological constant in present day cosmology. We also expect the existence of a cosmological constant due to the vacuum energy predicted by quantum mechanics. We don't yet know whether a non-zero cosmological constant exists in our universe, nor do we completely understand the theory behind it. Most likely, this understanding will elude us until a complete theory of both gravity and quantum mechanics is developed.

The fact that the cosmological constant is still debated today, almost a century after it was introduced by Einstein, and that it lies at the crossroads of quantum mechanics and gravity, makes one think that it was probably not Einstein's biggest blunder, but perhaps his greatest legacy.

See?
Here they implied Einstein-blunderer misunderstood Einstein-genius about what was Einstein's own [well...aside from borrowing here and there] theory...it makes no sense... Einstein's philosophizing and Ron Hubbard's philosophy? Perhaps it's why it's called THEORETICAL physics?
PFFT!

Differential calculus, too, was discovered simultaneously by both Newton and Leibniz...Newton became furious over it, accusing Leibniz of cheating...turns out the variety we adopt is the Leibniz one.
It can get even funnier...
Ham watched these 2 men with many letters after their names cross wits over whether T-Rex was in fact a predator (as TYRANNOS (=king) and REX (=king) suppose)or a scavenger...both examined the same fossil records...both concluded inevitably it was a predator...or a scavenger, depending on who you ask.
Of course prof. Nebekhboim wouldn't expect the unwashed to know about any of the above...they are supposed to bother about the IX series of this cute new age series, where Muffy the bisexual witch is a$$ raped by a sodomite vampire of color and gives birth to the Green Lantern who goes on to foil a Nazi plot to take over Iceland in search for the terra cava...PFFT!