On Jul 15, 3:03 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...***yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=7877
> "Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS has been awarded the Royal Society's
> Copley medal the world's oldest prize for scientific achievement for
> his exceptional contributions to geometry and mathematical physics.
> Sir Roger, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the
> University of Oxford, has made outstanding contributions to general
> relativity theory and cosmology, most notably for his work on black
> holes and the Big Bang.....Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society
> said: "Roger has been producing original and important scientific
> ideas for half a century. His work is characterised by exceptional
> geometrical and physical insight. He applied new mathematical
> techniques to Einstein's theory, and led the renaissance in
> gravitation theory in the 1960s."
>
> This "Sir Roger" should have been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris
> Causa Perduta. His most important discovery coincides with Einstein's
> 1954 confession:
>
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tweb/00001/
> Roger Penrose: "I had, for a good many years earlier, been of the
> opinion that the SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM picture of reality would prove
> inadequate on some small scale."
>
> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/pdf...09145525ca.pdf
> Albert Einstein: "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot
> be based upon the field concept, that is on CONTINUOUS structures.
> Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the
> theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary
> physics."

Of course, money does not always go from Sir Martin to Sir Roger.
Sometimes it goes from Sir Roger to Sir Martin:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3470
"The prize consists of a gold medal and $500,000....Laureates of the
Gruber Cosmology Prize:....2001: Martin Rees for his extraordinary
intuition in unraveling the complexities of the universe.....The Prize
recipients are chosen by the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board. Its
members are: Jacqueline Bergeron, Institut d’Astrophysique-CNRS; Peter
Galison, Harvard University; Ronald Ekers, Australia Telescope
National Facility - CSIRO; Andrei Linde, Stanford University; Julio F.
Navarro, University of Victoria; James Peebles, Princeton University;
Roger Penrose, University of Oxford...."

Some members of the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board did not want to
give so much money to Sir Martin because at that time Sir Martin
presented himself as a revolutionary that would rewrite Divine
Albert's Divine Theory and even reject Einstein's 1905 false light
postulate some day:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts
September 9 2001. "A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned
that the laws thought to govern the universe, including Albert
Einsteins theory of relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which
includes Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer
royal, say such laws may only work for our universe but not in others
that are now also thought to exist.....AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION
IS EINSTEINS BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME -
186,000 miles a second in a vacuum.....Rees, Hawking and others are so
concerned at the impact of such ideas that they recently organised a
private conference in Cambridge for more than 30 leading
cosmologists."

However Sir Roger explained to the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board
that Sir Martin had been misled by current fashion and in fact had no
intention to rewrite Divine Albert's Divine Theory, let alone reject
Einstein's 1905 false light postulate. Serenity was reestablished and
the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board gave the money to Sir Martin.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev***yahoo.com

On Jul 17, 10:38***am, Pentcho Valev <pva...***yahoo.com> wrote:
> Of course, money does not always go from Sir Martin to Sir Roger.
> Sometimes it goes from Sir Roger to Sir Martin:
>
> http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3470
> "The prize consists of a gold medal and $500,000....Laureates of the
> Gruber Cosmology Prize:....2001: Martin Rees for his extraordinary
> intuition in unraveling the complexities of the universe.....The Prize
> recipients are chosen by the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board. Its
> members are: Jacqueline Bergeron, Institut d’Astrophysique-CNRS; Peter
> Galison, Harvard University; Ronald Ekers, Australia Telescope
> National Facility - CSIRO; Andrei Linde, Stanford University; Julio F.
> Navarro, University of Victoria; James Peebles, Princeton University;
> Roger Penrose, University of Oxford...."
>
> Some members of the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board did not want to
> give so much money to Sir Martin because at that time Sir Martin
> presented himself as a revolutionary that would rewrite Divine
> Albert's Divine Theory and even reject Einstein's 1905 false light
> postulate some day:
>
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts
> September 9 2001. "A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned
> that the laws thought to govern the universe, including Albert
> Einsteins theory of relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which
> includes Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer
> royal, say such laws may only work for our universe but not in others
> that are now also thought to exist.....AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION
> IS EINSTEINS BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME -
> 186,000 miles a second in a vacuum.....Rees, Hawking and others are so
> concerned at the impact of such ideas that they recently organised a
> private conference in Cambridge for more than 30 leading
> cosmologists."
>
> However Sir Roger explained to the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board
> that Sir Martin had been misled by current fashion and in fact had no
> intention to rewrite Divine Albert's Divine Theory, let alone reject
> Einstein's 1905 false light postulate. Serenity was reestablished and
> the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board gave the money to Sir Martin.

More precisely, Sir Martin had been misled by his friend Paul Davies
who at that time was busy introducing shock and horror in Einstein
zombie world:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/a...ls.php?id=5538
Paul Davies: "Was Einstein wrong? In recent years a few maverick
scientists have claimed that the speed of light might not be constant
at all. Shock, horror! Does this mean the next Great Revolution in
Science is just around the corner?"

The Cosmology Selection Advisory Board explained to Sir Martin that
Einstein zombie world needed no shock and horror, let alone
revolutions around the corner, so the money would be given to Sir
Martin only if he would forget the falsehood of Einstein's 1905 light
postulate forever. Sir Martin took the money and forgot the falsehood
of Einstein's 1905 light postulate forever. Paul Davies also forgot
the falsehood of Einstein's 1905 light postulate forever and the
Cosmology Selection Advisory Board may give him some money soon.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev***yahoo.com

Sir Martin thinks that Zombie Everitt has gone too far. Sir Martin
knows that Divine Albert's Divine Theory is an inconsistency and
therefore can predict anything. How can one test a theory that
predicts anything? Sir Martin suggests that Gravity Probe B should not
waste money anymore. Zombie Everitt will never again sing "Divine
Einstein":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected...ecfgravb28.xml
"Did Einstein get all his sums right?.....Last week, an American probe
began an 18-month mission to put Einstein's prediction to the test, 90
years after he unveiled his ideas in Berlin. Gravity Probe B was
blasted into space from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on
a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and will orbit the Earth for more than a year.
The $700 million joint mission between Nasa and Stanford University,
conceived in 1958, uses four of the most perfect spheres ever created
inside the world's largest Thermos flask to detect minute distortions
in the fabric of the universe.....Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer
Royal, said: "The project's a technical triumph, and a triumph of the
persistence and lobbying power of Stanford University. But its
gestation has been grotesquely prolonged, and the cost overruns have
been equally gross. I recall hearing a talk about the project from
Francis Everitt (principal investigator) when I was still a student –
and it was already well advanced. "Back in the 1960s the evidence for
Einstein's theory was meagre – just two tests, with 10 per cent
precision. But relativity is now confirmed by several tests, with
precision of one part in 10,000. It's still, in principle, good to
have new and different tests. But the level of confidence in
Einstein's theory is now so high that an announcement of the expected
result will 'fork no lightening'. "Moreover, if there's an unexpected
result, I suspect most people will suspect an error in this very
challenging experiment rather than immediately abandon Einstein:
There's now so much evidence corroborating Einstein, that a high
burden of proof is required before he'll be usurped by any rival
theory. "So the most exciting – if un-alluring – outcome of Gravity
Probe B would be a request by Stanford University for another huge sum
of money to repeat it."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev***yahoo.com

Sir Martin thinks that Zombie Everitt has gone too far. Sir Martin
knows that Divine Albert's Divine Theory is an inconsistency and
therefore can predict anything. How can one test a theory that
predicts anything? Sir Martin suggests that Gravity Probe B should not
waste money anymore. Zombie Everitt will never again sing "Divine
Einstein":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected...ecfgravb28.xml
"Did Einstein get all his sums right?.....Last week, an American probe
began an 18-month mission to put Einstein's prediction to the test, 90
years after he unveiled his ideas in Berlin. Gravity Probe B was
blasted into space from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on
a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and will orbit the Earth for more than a year.
The $700 million joint mission between Nasa and Stanford University,
conceived in 1958, uses four of the most perfect spheres ever created
inside the world's largest Thermos flask to detect minute distortions
in the fabric of the universe.....Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer
Royal, said: "The project's a technical triumph, and a triumph of the
persistence and lobbying power of Stanford University. But its
gestation has been grotesquely prolonged, and the cost overruns have
been equally gross. I recall hearing a talk about the project from
Francis Everitt (principal investigator) when I was still a student –
and it was already well advanced. "Back in the 1960s the evidence for
Einstein's theory was meagre – just two tests, with 10 per cent
precision. But relativity is now confirmed by several tests, with
precision of one part in 10,000. It's still, in principle, good to
have new and different tests. But the level of confidence in
Einstein's theory is now so high that an announcement of the expected
result will 'fork no lightening'. "Moreover, if there's an unexpected
result, I suspect most people will suspect an error in this very
challenging experiment rather than immediately abandon Einstein:
There's now so much evidence corroborating Einstein, that a high
burden of proof is required before he'll be usurped by any rival
theory. "So the most exciting – if un-alluring – outcome of Gravity
Probe B would be a request by Stanford University for another huge sum
of money to repeat it."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev***yahoo.com

Sir Martin thinks that Zombie Everitt has gone too far. Sir Martin
knows that Divine Albert's Divine Theory is an inconsistency and
therefore can predict anything. How can one test a theory that
predicts anything? Sir Martin suggests that Gravity Probe B should not
waste money anymore. Zombie Everitt will never again sing "Divine
Einstein":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected...ecfgravb28.xml
"Did Einstein get all his sums right?.....Last week, an American probe
began an 18-month mission to put Einstein's prediction to the test, 90
years after he unveiled his ideas in Berlin. Gravity Probe B was
blasted into space from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on
a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and will orbit the Earth for more than a year.
The $700 million joint mission between Nasa and Stanford University,
conceived in 1958, uses four of the most perfect spheres ever created
inside the world's largest Thermos flask to detect minute distortions
in the fabric of the universe.....Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer
Royal, said: "The project's a technical triumph, and a triumph of the
persistence and lobbying power of Stanford University. But its
gestation has been grotesquely prolonged, and the cost overruns have
been equally gross. I recall hearing a talk about the project from
Francis Everitt (principal investigator) when I was still a student –
and it was already well advanced. "Back in the 1960s the evidence for
Einstein's theory was meagre – just two tests, with 10 per cent
precision. But relativity is now confirmed by several tests, with
precision of one part in 10,000. It's still, in principle, good to
have new and different tests. But the level of confidence in
Einstein's theory is now so high that an announcement of the expected
result will 'fork no lightening'. "Moreover, if there's an unexpected
result, I suspect most people will suspect an error in this very
challenging experiment rather than immediately abandon Einstein:
There's now so much evidence corroborating Einstein, that a high
burden of proof is required before he'll be usurped by any rival
theory. "So the most exciting – if un-alluring – outcome of Gravity
Probe B would be a request by Stanford University for another huge sum
of money to repeat it."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev***yahoo.com