Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / July 2008

He was a fuckhead.

Why is his theory inadequate at

Because it is useless.

No, no, Einstein worshipped TIME.
He was a patent clerk in Switzerland where cuckoo clocks come from,
saw many applications, he read H. G. Wells' "Time Machine" as a teenager.

'Really, this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people
who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only
another way of looking at Time. There is no difference between Time and any
of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness  moves along
with it.' -- Herbert George Wells - "The Time Machine" - 1895.

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --Einstein

The Kook-O-Meter begins to quiver...

The Kook-O-Meter goes to a high reading...

The Kook-O-Meter pegs against the stop...

The Kook-O-Meter explodes in a brilliant flash of light and smoke
pours out of the shattered housing.

On Jul 21, 4:44 pm, Strich 9 <Strich.9.2cac...@physicsbanter.com>
wrote:

That sounds like more than Einstein's shadow
could know.

"Einstein's Mistakes"  --Weinberg
http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-58/iss-11/p31.html
http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_58/iss_11/31_1.shtml

<< Einstein published his theory of
gravitation, or general theory of relativity,
in 1916. And so a new paradigm, or set of
beliefs, was established. It was not until
1930 that Fritz London explained the weak,
attractive dipolar electric bonding force
(known as Van der Waals' dispersion force
or the 'London force') that causes gas
molecules to condense and form liquids
and solids. Like gravity, the London force
is always attractive and operates between
electrically neutral molecules
[...]
What a different story might have been told
if London's insight had come a few decades
earlier? Physics could, by now, have advanced
by a century instead of being bogged in a
mire of metaphysics. >>
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=r4k29syp

"The Origin of Gravity" --C. P. Kouropoulos
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107015v6

Sue...

On Jul 21, 4:44 pm, Strich 9 <Strich.9.2cac...@physicsbanter.com>
wrote:

Languishing in the mediocre middle won't get you anywhere.  Besides,
if you can prove Einstein was incorrect, show us how.  Any idiot can
spew nonsense on usenet.  You seem to have a tendency to go on and on
without saying anything of substance.  The ball's in your hands.   Put
up or shut up!

[snip crap]

Hey f.cking stooopid,

  0) Lorentz Invariance.

  1) Experimental constraints on Special Relativity
<http://www.edu-observatory.org/physics-faq/Relativity/SR/experiments.html>

  2) Experimental constraints on General Relativity
<http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2006-3/>
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0311039

  3) SR: c=c, G=0, h=0; GR: c=c, G=G, h=0

  4) Maxwell's equations are covariant right out of the box.

[snip rest of crap]

<http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare>

So THAT's why they call them the Illuminati.

Moral of the Story: Nobody should pretend to read God's mind or design

--
Strich 9

  Hear is another way to look at it.

Poincaré & Einstein
Ref: "EINSTEIN 1905", John S. Rigden, Harvard University Press (2005)

   In his 1902 book "La Science et l'Hypothèse", the
   mathematical physicist Henri Poincaré identified three
   fundamental yet unresolved problems [in physics].

   One problem concerned the mysterious way ultraviolet
   light ejects electrons from the surface of a metal;

   the second problem was the zig-zagging perpetual motion
   of pollen particles suspended in a liquid;

   the third problem was the failure of experiments to
   detect Earth's motion through the aether.

   In 1904, Einstein read Poincaré's book. He had also been
   thinking about these problems, independently of Poincaré.
   For Einstein, they were clearly part of God's thoughts.
   One year later, in 1905, he solved all three.

             _______________________

Ref: http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/1/2/1
Adapted from "Five papers that shook the world"
by Matthew Chalmers
January 2005

   Most physicists would be happy to make one discovery that
   is important enough to be taught to future generations of
   physics students. Only a very small number manage this in
   their lifetime, and even fewer make two appearances in
   the textbooks.

   But Einstein was different. In little more than eight
   months in 1905 he completed five papers that would change
   the world for ever. Spanning three quite distinct topics
   - relativity, the photoelectric effect and Brownian
   motion - Einstein overturned our view of space and time,
   showed that it is insufficient to describe light purely
   as a wave, and laid the foundations for the discovery of
   atoms.

   Genius at work

   Perhaps even more remarkably, Einstein's 1905 papers were
   based neither on hard experimental evidence nor
   sophisticated mathematics. Instead, he presented elegant
   arguments and conclusions based on physical intuition.

   "Einstein's work stands out not because it was difficult
   but because nobody at that time had been thinking the way
   he did," says Gerard 't Hooft of the University of
   Utrecht, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics for
   his work in quantum theory.

   "Dirac, Fermi, Feynman and others also made multiple
   contributions to physics, but Einstein made the world
   realize, for the first time, that pure thought can change
   our understanding of nature."

   And just in case the enormity of Einstein's achievement
   is in any doubt, we have to remember that he did all of
   this in his "spare time".

   Statistical revelations

   In 1905 Einstein was married with a one-year-old son and
   working as a patent examiner in Bern in Switzerland. His
   passion was physics, but he had been unable to find an
   academic position after graduating from the ETH in Zurich
   in 1900.

   Nevertheless, he had managed to publish five papers in
   the leading German journal Annalen der Physik between
   1900 and 1904, and had also submitted an unsolicited
   thesis on molecular forces to the University of Zurich,
   which was rejected.

   Most of these early papers were concerned with the
   reality of atoms and molecules, something that was far
   from certain at the time. But on 17 March in 1905 - three
   days after his 26th birthday - Einstein submitted a paper
   titled "A heuristic point of view concerning the
   production and transformation of light" to Annalen der
   Physik.

   Einstein suggested that, from a thermodynamic
   perspective, light can be described as if it consists of
   independent quanta of energy (Ann. Phys., Lpz 17
   132-148).

   This hypothesis, which had been tentatively proposed by
   Max Planck a few years earlier, directly challenged the
   deeply ingrained wave picture of light. However, Einstein
   was able to use the idea to explain certain puzzles about
   the way that light or other electromagnetic radiation
   ejected electrons from a metal via the photoelectric
   effect.

   Maxwell's electrodynamics could not, for example, explain
   why the energy of the ejected photoelectrons depended
   only on the frequency of the incident light and not on
   the intensity. However, this phenomenon was easy to
   understand if light of a certain frequency actually
   consisted of discrete packets or photons all with the
   same energy.

   Einstein would go on to receive the 1921 Nobel Prize for
   Physics for this work, although the official citation
   stated that the prize was also awarded "for his services
   to theoretical physics".

   "The arguments Einstein used in the photoelectric and
   subsequent radiation theory are staggering in their
   boldness and beauty," says Frank Wilczek, a theorist at
   the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shared the
   2004 Nobel Prize for Physics.

   "He put forward revolutionary ideas that both inspired
   decisive experimental work and helped launch quantum
   theory." Although not fully appreciated at the time,
   Einstein's work on the quantum nature of light was the
   first step towards establishing the wave-particle duality
   of quantum particles.

   On 30 April, one month before his paper on the
   photoelectric effect appeared in print, Einstein
   completed his second 1905 paper, in which he showed how
   to calculate Avogadro's number and the size of molecules
   by studying their motion in a solution.

   This article was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the
   University of Zurich in July, and published in a slightly
   altered form in Annalen der Physik in January 1906.

   Despite often being obscured by the fame of his papers on
   special relativity and the photoelectric effect,
   Einstein's thesis on molecular dimensions became one of
   his most quoted works.

   Indeed, it was his preoccupation with statistical
   mechanics that formed the basis of several of his
   breakthroughs, including the idea that light was
   quantized.

   After finishing a doctoral thesis, most physicists would
   be either celebrating or sleeping. But just 11 days later
   Einstein sent another paper to Annalen der Physik, this
   time on the subject of Brownian motion.

   In this paper, "On the movement of small particles
   suspended in stationary liquids required by the
   molecular-kinetic theory of heat", Einstein combined
   kinetic theory and classical hydrodynamics to derive an
   equation that showed that the displacement of Brownian
   particles varies as the square root of time (Ann. Phys.,
   Lpz 17 549-560).

   This was confirmed experimentally by Jean Perrin three
   years later, proving once and for all that atoms do
   exist. In fact, Einstein extended his theory of Brownian
   motion in an additional paper that he sent to the journal
   on 19 December, although this was not published until
   February 1906.

   A special discovery

   Shortly after finishing his paper on Brownian motion
   Einstein had an idea about synchronizing clocks that were
   spatially separated.

             _______________________

Adapted from "The Mechanical Universe"
Episode 43: Velocity and Time

   In the 1800s Michael Faraday discovered, or I should say
   formalized, electromagnetic induction. Given a coil of
   wire and a bar magnet...

              F = qE + qv x B

   Holding the coil stationary and moving the bar magnet
   produced an electric current in the coil. Similarly
   holding the bar magnet stationary and moving the coil
   also produced an electric current in the coil.

   But in the language of electrodynamics of the day the two
   cases were distinct independent phenomena that had
   completely different explanations.

   When Albert Einstein saw that, he said "Look guys, you've
   just got to be kidding--Any yo-yo can see that these are
   the same thing".

   So it was this little experiment that was really the
   start of relativity, not the Michelson-Morley
   Experiment--not some exotic experiment to detect the
   motion of the earth through the aether.

   With this simple little phenomenon, that of course
   everybody knew about, disturbed nobody else, but Albert
   Einstein.

   This led him to write a paper that landed on the desks of
   Annalen der Physik on 30 June, and would go on to
   completely overhaul our understanding of space and time.
   Some 30 pages long and containing no references, his
   fourth 1905 paper was titled "On the electrodynamics of
   moving bodies" (Ann. Phys., Lpz 17 891-921).

   In the 200 or so years before 1905, physics had been
   built on Newton's laws of motion, which were known to
   hold equally well in stationary reference frames and in
   frames moving at a constant velocity in a straight line.
   Provided the correct "Galilean" rules were applied, one
   could therefore transform the laws of physics so that
   they did not depend on the frame of reference.

   However, the theory of electrodynamics developed by
   Maxwell in the late 19th century posed a fundamental
   problem to this "principle of relativity" because it
   suggested that electromagnetic waves always travel at the
   same speed.

   Either electrodynamics was wrong or there had to be some
   kind of stationary "ether" through which the waves could
   propagate.

             _______________________

   I just want to read to you the first two paragraphs of
   Einsteins 4th paper...

ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES
By A. Einstein
June 30, 1905

   It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics--as usually
   understood at the present time--when applied to moving
   bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be
   inherent in the phenomena.

   Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action
   of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon
   here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor
   and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp
   distinction between the two cases in which either the one
   or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the
   magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there
   arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric
   field with a certain definite energy, producing a current
   at the places where parts of the conductor are situated.

   But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in
   motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of
   the magnet. In the conductor, however, we find an
   electromotive force, to which in itself there is no
   corresponding energy, but which gives rise--assuming
   equality of relative motion in the two cases
   discussed--to electric currents of the same path and
   intensity as those produced by the electric forces in the
   former case.

   Examples of this sort, together with the unsuccessful
   attempts to discover any motion of the earth relatively
   to the "light medium," suggest that the phenomena of
   electrodynamics as well as of mechanics possess no
   properties corresponding to the idea of absolute rest.

   They suggest rather that, as has already been shown to  (1)
   the first order of small quantities, the same laws of
   electrodynamics and optics will be valid for all frames
   of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold
   good. We will raise this conjecture (the purport of which
   will hereafter be called the ``Principle of Relativity'')
   to the status of a postulate,

   and also introduce another postulate, which is only     (2)
   apparently irreconcilable with the former, namely, that
   light is always propagated in empty space with a definite
   velocity c which is independent of the state of motion of
   the emitting body.

   These two postulates suffice for the attainment of a
   simple and consistent theory of the electrodynamics of
   moving bodies based on Maxwell's theory for stationary
   bodies.

   The introduction of a "luminiferous ether" will prove
   to be superfluous inasmuch as the view here to be
   developed will not require an "absolutely stationary
   space" provided with special properties, nor assign a
   velocity-vector to a point of the empty space in which
   electromagnetic processes take place.

   And, of course the paper goes on to develop the ideas
   and make his case...

             _______________________

   True to style, Einstein
   swept away the concept of the ether (which, in any case,
   had not been detected experimentally) in one audacious
   step. He postulated that no matter how fast you are
   moving, light will always appear to travel at the same
   velocity: the speed of light is a fundamental constant of
   nature that cannot be exceeded.

   Combined with the requirement that the laws of physics
   are the identical in all "inertial" (i.e.
   non-accelerating) frames, Einstein built a completely new
   theory of motion that revealed Newtonian mechanics to be
   an approximation that only holds at low, everyday
   speeds.

   The theory later became known as the special theory of
   relativity - special because it applies only to
   non-accelerating frames - and led to the realization that
   space and time are intimately linked to one another.

   In order that the two postulates of special relativity
   are respected, strange things have to happen to space and
   time, which, unbeknown to Einstein, had been predicted by
   Lorentz and others the previous year.

   For instance, the length of an object becomes shorter
   when it travels at a constant velocity, and a moving
   clock runs slower than a stationary clock.

   Effects like these have been verified in countless
   experiments over the last 100 years, but in 1905 the most
   famous prediction of Einstein's theory was still to come.

   After a short family holiday in Serbia, Einstein
   submitted his fifth and final paper of 1905 on 27
   September. Just three pages long and titled "Does the
   inertia of a body depend on its energy content?", this
   paper presented an "afterthought" on the consequences of
   special relativity, which culminated in a simple equation
   that is now known as E = mc^2 (Ann. Phys., Lpz 18
   639-641).

   This equation, which was to become the most famous in all
   of science, was the icing on the cake.

   "The special theory of relativity, culminating in the
   prediction that mass and energy can be converted into one
   another, is one of the greatest achievements in physics -
   or anything else for that matter," says Wilczek.

   "Einstein's work on Brownian motion would have merited a
   sound Nobel prize, the photoelectric effect a strong
   Nobel prize, but special relativity and E = mc^2 were
   worth a super-strong Nobel prize."

   However, while not doubting the scale of Einstein's
   achievements, many physicists also think that his 1905
   discoveries would have eventually been made by others.

   "If Einstein had not lived, people would have stumbled on
   for a number of years, maybe a decade or so, before
   getting a clear conception of special relativity," says
   Ed Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in
   Princeton.

   't Hooft agrees. "The more natural course of events would
   have been that Einstein's 1905 discoveries were made by
   different people, not by one and the same person," he
   says. However, most think that it would have taken much
   longer - perhaps a few decades - for Einstein's general
   theory of relativity to emerge.

   Indeed, Wilczek points out that one consequence of
   general relativity being so far ahead of its time was
   that the subject languished for many years afterwards.

   The aftermath

   By the end of 1905 Einstein was starting to make a name
   for himself in the physics community, with Planck and
   Philipp Lenard - who won the Nobel prize that year -
   among his most famous supporters. Indeed, Planck was a
   member of the editorial board of Annalen der Physik at
   the time.

   Einstein was finally given the title of Herr Doktor from
   the University of Zurich in January 1906, but he remained
   at the patent office for a further two and a half years
   before taking up his first academic position at Zurich.

   By this time his statistical interpretation of Brownian
   motion and his bold postulates of special relativity were
   becoming part of the fabric of physics, although it would
   take several more years for his paper on light quanta to
   gain wide acceptance.

   1905 was undoubtedly a great year for physics, and for
   Einstein. "You have to go back to quasi-mythical figures
   like Galileo or especially Newton to find good
   analogues," says Wilczek.

   "The closest in modern times might be Dirac, who, if
   magnetic monopoles had been discovered, would have given
   Einstein some real competition!" But we should not forget
   that 1905 was just the beginning of Einstein's legacy.
   His crowning achievement - the general theory of
   relativity - was still to come.