“Celestial Mechanics”

This was written by Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace in five volumes and translated into English by Mary Fairfax-Somerville, a predecessor on the Civil List, and after whom Somerville College Oxford is named. It was also translated by Thomas Young of the Young interferometer, whose work Laplace developed using calculus. The celestial mechanics of all orbits is elegantly analysed by the Lagrange method as in the latest note or lecture sent yesterday. Lagrange was raised to Count by Napoleon, and was Legion d’Honneur (as was my co author Vigier, a French statesman (as distinct from politician) and eminent theoretical physicist on the level of Laplace and Lagrange, Euler and Fourier and others of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century). Although it takes experience to use the lagrangian system, it is relatively easy for planar orbits, where the lagrangian variables are r and theta, or r and beta = x theta. The errors in Einsteinian general relativity are very glaringly obvious when the lagrangian method is used. (I use the S.I. system “lagrangian” for an adjective, lower case l.) Horst Eckardt and I have shown this beyond reasonable doubt. No scientist of any integrity can continue to support such nonsense as Einsteinian general relativity. This is no longer a minority opinion, (assuming that it ever was), it is the overwhelming majority opinion. The AIAS feedback is by now unique history, and such statements as this are objective, no longer subjective. There is an immense problem of what I call fogma, or foggy dogmatism, which is George Bernard Shaw’s science become superstition.