CONTAMINANTES
Was Light Faster in the Past? Este João Magueijo está mesmo na ordem do dia:
A par com uma entrevista na New Scientist (não disponível online mas encontra-se na edição de 8 de Fevereiro, onde se aborda também o impacto do trabalho noutras disciplinas), na qual "bate" no sistema de "peer review", no sistema financeiro das instituições científicas inglesas ou na "string theory", fala-se dele ainda em "Bang goes that theory" a propósito do seu livro Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation.
O Público falou com ele em Janeiro e a Economist criticou o livro. Um extracto: The first half of his book, a broad primer, is riddled with cliché and self-regard. The author cannot get through a discussion of Einstein's special theory of relativity without a reference to his own precocity. In the second half of his book, Mr Magueijo purports to provide, among other things, a behind-the-scenes picture of how physics is done. The attempt fails because most physicists are not as professionally bitter as Mr Magueijo. They do not typically deride each other in print or claim, for example, that the editors of scientific journals suffer from penis envy. If, as Mr Magueijo claims, he wanted us to take the diatribes that litter his book as jokes, they fall crashingly flat.
[act.:] At the Speed of Light: What if Einstein was wrong?