Re: Hole/Handle Invariants Via Probable Influence

>>From Osher Doctorow mdoctorow@xxxxxxxxxxx

But why would Einstein lie?

The only reason I can think of may be precisely the reason why Pierre
de Fermat of 1600s France kept his methods to himself, declined to
publish, and was reclusive, somewhat like Sir Isaac Newton of the U.K.
who followed him. But it's a damn good reason. The bureaucratic power
struggle. Fermat was in a life-or-death bureaucratic power struggle
with Descartes, the "professional" bureaucrat (Fermat was an amateur in
science and math, being a professional Magistrate). Sir Isaac
displayed similar characteristics in his younger years. Einstein was
in a bureaucratic power struggle with what has to be called the
German-Nordic faction of physics, which at that time had an obsession
with opposition to causation, but this opposition to causation also
extended severely into politics. Any physicist or mathematician worth
anything so to speak could recognize this. When Heisenberg answered:
"Loyalty to Germany," to the question of why he stayed with the
ultra-political faction, he was saying goodbye to political causation.
One can admittedly speak of loyalty to Ethics, Knowledge, and even
Spirit, but what is loyalty to Germany if Germany's political system is
overthrown? Is it the old Germany or the new Germany, and in any case
how is one loyal to opposite systems? This was unanswerable. And it
caused no problem for most USA physicists either when they heard about
this, because Bureaucrats know what loyalty means - it's almost their
definition of Bureaucracy. One is loyal to the "in-group", whether
right or left or "center". One is usually loyal to oneself most of all
- number one, numero uno, "Me", "I am the State." And one often
deceives oneself into believing that one is loyal to an abstract
humanity which justifies ignoring relatives and friends and
responsibilities all around oneself, or substitute "ethnic group" or
"political faction" for humanity. I know. I have been there. I'm not
an abstract genius. I'm one of Shakespeare's monkeys who has learned
by trial and error. But when even a monkey does learn, watch out!
Simplicity may follow :>)

Osher Doctorow

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