Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / July 2008

Yes, light is magic and the waves that travel at c don't slow
time at all.
LOL

Sam raises a good point
when he demonstrates that ignorant people in the media
parrot conventional wisdom and promote Urban Science Legends.

As Sam demonstrates
Phil Berardelli, the ScienceNOW Daily News parrot,
makes a number of wild connections,
and does not provide valid mathematical proof of the connections.

Rational, intelligent folks would tend to ask
the following questions:

1. How much is "almost"?
2. Do other models have a smaller "almost"?
3 "Exactly" where did Einstein "exactly" predict the observed effect,
and what numbers and equation did Einstein use in his model to predict the effect?
4. Where does Einstein differentiate between the affects of "massive bodies"
and "near enough"?

It is sad,
NO!, it  is a crime against science
that people like Phil Berardelli,
continue to parrot the Urban Legend that
"matter slows down time"
when the fact of the matter is that
time is what THE ONE standard clock indicates,

and that time units are derived from THE ONE
oscillator used to drive the accumulator
that is the clock.

There is one master oscillator, and one master clock,
and ALL other so-called clocks are INSTRUMENTS,
not clocks.

The goal of science is to organize all events
on the minimum number of
linear (Identical increments),
orthogonal dimensions (Uncontaminated by other dimensions).

As Maxwell pointed out when he developed "Dimensional Analysis",
the standard that ALL physics models MUST conform to,
all physical properties can be pointed to using
a standard "time period",
three orthogonal "time intervals" (Spaces)
and one mass.

And as Planck showed that one mass
is a function of standard, quantum units of "action".

It is sad,
NO! IT is a crime that ignorant people in the media
continue to promote rubber clocks and rulers,
that necessitate an infinite number of "continuous orthogonals"
rather than the six quantum orthogonals that Maxwell
described so well over 150 years ago.

It appears that General Relativity is more
of a "Tower of Babel"
than a useful, efficient, viable model of reality,
as it wastes time, money and minds on such pursuits
as the beginning and end of time,
time travel, warping through space, black holes,
gravitons, dragging space around,
infinite orthogonalities, etc.

I suggest that the people who have been duped
to waste billions of the taxpayers dollars to
promote General Relativity, should think about
what that money could do if it were spent
on using the DNA model to improve health,
on the environment, fight crime, organized history, etc.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Has anyone noted the "almost" in the last sentence ?

The usual seed planted to induce more grant grease to flow in from
ignorant
politics for yet more useless research leading nowhere on stuff
rehashed
umpteen times generating more papers also containing the "almost"
keyword.

A well greased grant generating Einstein compliant machine meant to
build
carriers on actually doing nothing to advance fundamental research.

André Michaud

Right Again, Einstein, [say his Dingleberries]
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/703/2
wherein it syas
As if his reputation needed cementing, astronomers have confirmed
Albert Einstein's status as a supergenius in [a] Science, which is
**** almost*** exactly what the famous physicist had foreseen.

hanson wrote:
Yeas, but only **** almost***.... ahahahaha... AHAHAHAHA...

Besides all that can be explained much more **accurately** by
normal  Newtonian physics, except it is not as sexy thyat way....
which is why Einstein's Dingleberries use Albert's platform and
are die hards because they hope that they will earn and get
***fame by association***...  ahahaha...AHAHAHAHA...

Meanwhile, in the real world, here is where Einstein's crap
is still used and where they laugh about it:

= mil/indust. Eng, R&D....................."does not need REL sh.t"
= *.edu and grantology ...................."does use REL,  No sh.t"
= Promo, Sales & Movies..............."loves REL by the shitload"
= Jews protect it as cultural heritage whether "REL is sh.t or not".

Thanks for the laughs, Sam. Don't get any hemmies over it.
That is the purview of the Einstein Dingleberries...ahahaha...
... ahahahanson

Sam, no confirmation of the genius of this guy is really needed. In
physics, Einstein is the singular guy living during the 20th century
that stands shoulder to shoulder with Newton, and Maxwell.

The reason that physicists award him this stature is diffult to exlain
to laymen lacking a physics education.  By closest connection with
Newton was once I was allowed to hold an original edition of his
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica  in my gloved hands for
about 2-hours while locked in the vault of my undergraduate college
library.  (Here, physics majors were required to translate on chapter
from Latin to contemporary English.)  It was with trembling hands an
very poor latin that I completed this required assignment, with my
latin pony at my side. My hands trembled because I realized that the
age of 20, I was holding in my hands the very basis of modern
civilization. Only the Magna Carta has more historical importance than
does the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Newton.

I've never had a chance to converse with Albert Einstein, but I did
pass by him on the streets of Princeton, NJ more than once. I was a
small child, possibly 8 at that time, but I even then knew that he was
regarded as a great scientist.  It was only later that I really
realized how great this guy really was!  Sometimes his sister or
another female was with him, but usually he was alone. I remember that
as a kid I really though that this guy needed a haircut, but as a kid
I remember him simply as another old guy, but he was always nice to us
kids, but he did have that rather strange accent when he spoke. Turned
out later that it was German.  I later learned that he lived in a
small home on Mercer Street in the Borough of Princeton, without any
security, and would often take the local kids into his home at
instruct them on the basics of physics in terms that they could
comprhend.

OK, sufficient memories.

As everyone know who has studed Einstein, he had an ability to reduce
the most complex physical theories down to the level of an 8th grader,
without loosing any of the primary concepts. At least I am so tild by
the lucky kids in Princeton that had Albert Einstein as a math or
physics  tutor.

When I later attend college, it was only then that I realize the
importance of the contributions to the science that this man had made.
He essentially was the transition point between classical physics and
modern physics.

As I have said, Einstein was a master at convening to laymen the
nature of his theories. I really to today know of no theory that
cannot be consensed down to the level that an 8th grader cannot
comprehend. Albert Einstein was very gifted at knowing how to do that,
beginning with his railway car examples of special relativity.

What many lay readers do not know, it that Einstein never published a
theory of General Relativity, At the time of his  death, it was
incomplete.

Harry C.

Sam, that's the real story.