http://www.nyas.org/publications/UpdateUnbound.asp?UpdateID=41
"A Crisis in Fundamental Physics...Then, about 30 years ago, something
changed. The last time there was a definitive advance in our knowledge
of fundamental physics was the construction ofthe theory we call the
standard model of particle physics in 1973. The last time a
fundamental theory was proposed that has since gotten any support from
experiment was a theory about the very early universe called
inflation, which was proposed in 1981."

http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.3/smolin.htm
"Quantum theory was not the only theory that bothered Einstein. Few
people have appreciated how dissatisfied he was with his own theories
of relativity. Special relativity grew out of Einstein's insight that
the laws of electromagnetism cannot depend on relative motion and that
the speed of light therefore must be always the same, no matter how
the source or the observer moves. Among the consequences of that
theory are that energy and mass are equivalent (the now-legendary
relationship E = mc2) and that time and distance are relative, not
absolute. Special relativity was the result of 10 years of
intellectual struggle, yet Einstein had convinced himself it was wrong
within two years of publishing it."

Has the author of the two texts (Lee Smolin) ever seen the close
relation between them? Surely he has.

Pentcho Valev