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Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
Einstein himself admitted to an unlimited celestial light-speed ten years after he claimed it was constant.
The ‘greatest scientist evah’ wrote:
“In the second place our result shows that, according to the general theory of relativity, the law of the constancy of the velocity of light in vacuo, which constitutes one of the two fundamental assumptions in the special theory of relativity and to which we have already frequently referred, cannot claim any unlimited validity.
A curvature of rays of light can only take place when the velocity of propagation of light varies with position. Now we might think that as a consequence of this, the special theory of relativity and with it the whole theory of relativity would be laid in the dust. But in reality this is not the case.
We can only conclude that the special theory of relativity cannot claim an unlimited domain of validity; its results hold only so long as we are able to disregard the influences of gravitational fields on the phenomena (e.g., of light).”
Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, translation by Robert W. Lawson, 1961, p. 85.
In the quote above, the Einstotle says that the key postulate upon which the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) is based is wrong, but that is okay. It just proves that STR is valid though not infallible nor infinite! Doesn’t everyone wish that their philosophy or theory, no matter the objective evidence or proof, is valid and a ‘law’ that others must follow. We discussed in many posts why Einstein knew that light speed was variant.