http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/nationaltreasures/2193785/Prof-Stephen-Hawkin-portrait.html
"Professor Stephen Hawking is responsible for changing the way the world looks at the basic laws governing the universe."
In order to change the world, Professor Stephen Hawking explained to it that the Michelson-Morley experiment had confirmed, once and for all, the validity of Einstein's 1905 false light postulate and had refuted, once and for all, the prediction of Newton's emission theory of light according to which the speed of light does depend on the speed of the emitter or the observer:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html
Professor Stephen Hawking: "Interestingly enough, Laplace himself wrote a paper in 1799 on how some stars could have a gravitational field so strong that light could not escape, but would be dragged back onto the star. He even calculated that a star of the same density as the Sun, but two hundred and fifty times the size, would have this property. But although Laplace may not have realised it, the same idea had been put forward 16 years earlier by a Cambridge man, John Mitchell, in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Both Mitchell and Laplace thought of light as consisting of particles, rather like cannon balls, that could be slowed down by gravity, and made to fall back on the star. But a famous experiment, carried out by two Americans, Michelson and Morley in 1887, showed that light always travelled at a speed of one hundred and eighty six thousand miles a second, no matter where it came from. How then could gravity slow down light, and make it fall back."
http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/a_brief_history_of_rela6a.html
Professor Stephen Hawking: "But Michelson and Morley found no daily or yearly differences between the two beams of light. It was as if light always traveled at the same speed relative to you, no matter how you were moving."
So the world changed to such an extent that, on reading John Norton's explanation:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost universally use it as support for the light postulate of special relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT POSTULATE."
all Einstein zombies simultaneously declare:
"Zombie believe Master John Norton not. Zombie believe Master Stephen Hawking yes. Master Stephen Hawking clever very clever. Experiment say Divine Albert right. Experiment say Michell wrong. Michell not clever very clever. Master John Norton not clever very clever. Divine Albert yes clever very clever. Master Stephen Hawking yes clever very clever."
Then zombies sing "Divine Einstein" and go into convulsions.
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