"This paper investigates an alternative possibility: that the critics were right and that the success of Einstein's theory in overcoming them was due to its strengths as an ideology rather than as a science. The clock paradox illustrates how relativity
theory does indeed contain inconsistencies that make it scientifically problematic. These same inconsistencies, however, make the theory ideologically powerful. [...] The gatekeepers of professional physics in the universities and research institutes are
disinclined to support or employ anyone who raises problems over the elementary inconsistencies of relativity. A winnowing out process has made it very difficult for critics of Einstein to achieve or maintain professional status. Relativists are then
able to use the argument of authority to discredit these critics. Were relativists to admit that Einstein may have made a series of elementary logical errors, they would be faced with the embarrassing question of why this had not been noticed earlier.
Under these circumstances the marginalisation of antirelativists, unjustified on scientific grounds, is eminently justifiable on grounds of realpolitik. Supporters of relativity theory have protected both the theory and their own reputations by shutting
their opponents out of professional discourse. [...] The triumph of relativity theory represents the triumph of ideology not only in the profession of physics bur also in the philosophy of science." Peter Hayes, The Ideology of Relativity: The Case of
the Clock Paradox
https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02691720902741399
Peter Hayes is lecturer in politics (
https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/about/staff/history/peterhayes/) but his analysis is much deeper than any crisis-in-physics analysis produced by a theoretical physicist (e.g. Lee Smolin or Peter Woit).
The French philosopher Jacques Maritain compares the destruction of human mind caused by Einstein's relativity to material destructions caused by world wars:
Jacques Maritain, Oeuvres complètes, Volume 3, p. 285: "Il ne reste plus alors qu'à avouer que la théorie [d'Einstein], si l'on donnait une signification ontologiquement réelle aux entités qu'elle met en jeu, comporterait des absurdités; entiè
rement logique et cohérente comme système hypothético-déductif et synthèse mathématique des phénomènes, elle n'est pas, malgré les prétensions de ses partisans, une philosophie de la nature, parce que le principe de la constance de la vitesse
de la lumière, sur lequel elle s'appuie, ne peut pas être ontologiquement vrai." p. 300: "La science, même la plus mélangée d'hypothétique et de probable, même la moins élevée en intellectualité, la science est chose bonne en elle-même, et qui
détient une étincelle divine. On a vu toutefois ce qu'elle peut produire, lorsqu'elle est employée par l'homme, en fait de ruines matérielles et de destructions sanglantes. Les désastres qu'en usant d'elle les apprentis sorciers peuvent provoquer
dans l'ordre de l'esprit, pour être invisibles, ne sont pas moins énormes."
http://www.amazon.ca/Oeuvres-compl%C3%A8tes-Jacques-Maritain/dp/2850492752
Translation: Jacques Maritain, Complete Works, Volume 3, p. 285: "It only remains then to admit that [Einstein's] theory, if one gave an ontologically real meaning to the entities it brings into play, would include absurdities; entirely logical and
coherent as a hypothetico-deductive system and mathematical synthesis of phenomena, it is not, despite the claims of its supporters, a philosophy of nature, because the principle of the constancy of the speed of light, on which it is based, cannot be
ontologically true." p. 300: "Science, even the most mixed of hypothetical and probable, even the least elevated in intellectuality, science is a thing good in itself, and which holds a divine spark. We have seen, however, what it can produce, when used
by man, in terms of material ruins and bloody destruction. The disasters that by using it the sorcerer's apprentices can cause in the order of mind, even though invisible, are no less enormous."
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