Einsteiniana was partially paralysed in 2008 when John Baez, Einsteiniana's most famous educator, sent this signal to Einsteinians all over the world who had been learning by rote every word of his teaching:
http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_5.html
John Baez: "On the one hand we have the Standard Model, which tries to explain all the forces except gravity, and takes quantum mechanics into account. On the other hand we have General Relativity, which tries to explain gravity, and does not take quantum mechanics into account. Both theories seem to be more or less on the right track but until we somehow fit them together, or completely discard one or both, our picture of the world will be deeply schizophrenic.....I realized I didn't have enough confidence in either theory to engage in these heated debates. I also realized that there were other questions to work on: questions where I could actually tell when I was on the right track, questions where researchers cooperate more and fight less. So, I eventually decided to quit working on quantum gravity."
And now the end of the story: Divine Albert's Divine Theory of Everything, that is, Divine Albert's Divine Money-Spinner, is a Mistake:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5683551.ece
"PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking is to publish a controversial new book suggesting Albert Einsteins lifelong search for a theory of everything was probably a mistake.....Hawking said in a recent lecture, published on his website, www.hawking.org.uk: "Some people will be very disappointed if there is not an ultimate theory. I used to belong to that camp, but I have changed my mind. I'm now glad that our search for understanding will never come to an end."
Curiously, French Einsteinians discovered this a few years ago and now all of them are "les héritiers de Maxwell, de Boltzmann et de Poincaré". No-one in France knows what the words "Albert Einstein" could possibly mean:
http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article304
"Létonnante diversité des descriptions théoriques utilisées dans la physique dhier et daujourdhui est souvent perçue comme une faiblesse temporaire quil faudra corriger dans un état plus avancé de cette science. A lopposé de cette attitude, les héritiers de Maxwell, de Boltzmann et de Poincaré soulignent les vertus épistémiques dune diversité des descriptions et considèrent que décrire est un acte dont la dynamique transcende les objets originels de la description. Nous proposons de les suivre en explorant la manière dont les divers modes, niveaux et ordres de description dépendent des cultures scientifiques dans lesquels ils apparaissent et affectent notre capacité à résoudre des problèmes concrets, nous poussent à étudier de nouvelles sortes de phénomènes et suggèrent de nouveaux objets physiques."
In 10 years relativity and Einstein's 1905 false light postulate will be referred to in the way "classical" thermodynamics and its second law are referred to in the following text:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
"In the eyes of many modern physicists, the theory has acquired a somewhat dubious status. They regard classical thermodynamics as a relic from a bygone era... Indeed, the view that thermodynamics is obsolete is so common that many physicists use the phrase 'Second Law of Thermodynamics' to denote some counterpart of this law in the kinetic theory of gases or in statistical mechanics."
Pentcho Valev
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