Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / July 2006

"The Matter of "Dark Matter"
    There have been many postings about the mysterious "Dark Matter" which
is alleged to constitute 90 to 95% of the mass(energy) content of the
Universe. The presence of this "Dark Matter" is indicated by the observed

http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0143-0807/26/6/S09/ejp5_6_s09.pdf
Some of our favourite anti-relativists are mentioned here. Page 5 see's
Valev - its re: crank science

The anomaly in the position of the two Voyager spacecraft's, which are
heading out of the solar system.  I presume that the calculation has
been done on the basis of Einstein's gravity equations. Question. Is
there still a discrepancy if you use Newton's equations?

Dr. Nizar Hamdan
E-mail: nhamdan2@lycos.com
Since the appearance of Einstein's relativity (SRT) [1], an important
question was raised: Is the matter (energy) and its laws the influential

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York
Times Building."
- Ann Coulter
In her most recent Human Events column titled 'This Is Why We Don't

Actual Reality Versus Observed Reality.
When a television reporter asks another television reporter who is located
thousands of miles away a question, we can see the reporter he is talking to
waiting to hear the whole question before he can answer it.

                                         THE PRESENT
I think we all agree that we live in the present, since it is impossible for
any of us to live in the past or live in the future.  So what exactly is the
present?

Dr. Nizar Hamdan
E-mail: nhamdan2@lycos.com
One understands relativistic mechanics as a modification of (correction to)
classical mechanics, while the same correction can be obtained if we go back

It seems to me that the Sagnac effect would not contradict Einstein's
relativity. The reason a photon would take longer to go around a
rotating mirror system traveling one direction and a shorter time
traveling the other direction is because in the longer direction it's

"The Right Angle Lever Paradox"
    The "Right Angle Lever Paradox is a classic construct which is taught
in most courses in Special Relativity. As with all paradoxes, it reveals
that and error has been made in our thinking. It may be interesting then to

The Universe and the Mathematics:
Why They Are So Well Matched
Take 1A - Modified June 6, 2006
John Lawrence Reed, Jr.