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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the einstein-dismisses-india-scientists dept.

BBC:

Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress dismissed the findings of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

Hindu mythology and religion-based theories have increasingly become part of the Indian Science Congress agenda.

But experts said remarks at this year's summit were especially ludicrous.

[...] The head of a southern Indian university cited an old Hindu text as proof that stem cell research was discovered in India thousands of years ago.

G Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of Andhra University, also said a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka.

Another scientist from a university in the southern state of Tamil Nadu told conference attendees that Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were both wrong and that gravitational waves should be renamed "Narendra Modi Waves" [Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India].


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:15AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:15AM (#783962) Journal

    If he makes some breakthrough, we can tolerate all of his craziness.

    Actually, there's a certain limit, and it's not a forgiving one. Even Tesla ran up against it, and he was beyond brilliant. Random pseudoreligious ramblings (regardless of the pseudoreligion) are so unlikely to make the cut that you are more likely to win the lottery 50 times in a row while coming up with a unified einstein+quantum+gravity+bag-of-chips theory by accident than watch such an approach succeed.

    Even if it begins to show success if you pretend some of the nuttier parts don't exist, you still run up against that craziness limit we talked about.

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