Allen wrote:
"Like others, I hope this is a joke. It is certainly laughable to think
Einstein's theories of relativity have anything to do with the sort of
moral
relativism that denies absolute truth. As a physics prof put it to me
long
ago, relativity does not eliminate absolutes, it just changes the
absolutes
from what Newton thought they were to other absolutes that require
different
measuring sticks"
I think it was Gerald Holton who (20 years ago or so) suggested
that Einstein's idea should really have been called the INVARIANCE theory
and not the "Relativity" theory. Somewhere I think I read that Einstein
also offered that idea at one point.
Allen -- I think the post was not a joke. Sad, is it not?
Burgy
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