The velocity of light is not relative, space and time are. The velocity of light isn't just how fast light goes, it's a number somehow woven into reality itself — that is, space and time organize themselves around "c".
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"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible is a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." ... Albert Einstein in a letter made public this year
ReplyDeleteIf we are honest—and as scientists honesty is our precise duty—we cannot help but admit that any religion is a pack of false statements, deprived of any real foundation. The very idea of God is a product of human imagination.... I do not recognize any religious myth, at least because they contradict one another...." Paul Dirac, Solway Conference 1927, (International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry).
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