Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / October 2008

What is the consensus of opinion in this discussion group about what
experiments might constitute the "cornerstone" experiments that
confirm Special Relativity? Or are there a set of such experiments?
In studying the results of various experiments there are, obviously,

The material speed limit of "c" really seems to be a very strong
argument that space _does_ behave like a medium.
Consider: we are at rest (well, naturally), and a second observer
passes us at .5c .   We all know the story: physics looks just the

spin requires three things, an object another object and an attractive
force that acts over time.
particles are defines in 3rd dimensional matrices, forces in 4s
who came first?

It is claimed that an astronaut, accelerating following turn-around,
is of the opinion that his clock is ticking over at the same rate as
it was before he started moving and when he take his foot off the gas
pedal his clock's rate of operation does not instantaneously change

Misinformation Concerning Cosmology and Relativity:
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Why 3 out of 4 White Supremacists Support Barack Obama
How do racists, anti-Semites and all-purpose hate-mongers view the
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way you think they would.

THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EQUIVALENCE
The principle of the equivalence of the inertial force with the
gravitational force is the fundament of the Einstein general theory of
the relativity.

Thinking about Einstein's thought experiment....
An elevator in outer space is moving at constant
velocity v, in the +y direction.  Of course, to its
occupants, it is not moving at all.

I hope that wisdom will win.
Reasonable physicists must gather together and write an open letter to
UN, to presidents and governments of developed countries. The letter
must contain:

Hypergeometrical Universe Predicts both Mercury Perihelion Precession
and Gravitational Lensing
My theory is a 5D Spacetime theory with a 4D non-compact spatial
Manifold. It is presented in this blog

I have made several attempts to post the following response however
they have been unsuccessful.
Here is the response I tried to send to Harald.
On Oct 25, 12:36 pm, "harry" <harald.vanlintelButNotT...@epfl.ch>

The set up is :-
A room filled with vaccum and two identical uncharged fragile balls(5
metres apart) with same mass and same density(uniform) are held 5
metres above the ground.

THE NEGATIVE OBSERVATIONS FOR THE LT
So long I have published in my previous articles the observations
about the LT that make evident why the LT is an errant mathematical
relation.

Geometría Cuántica
Modelo Tetra Dimensional de Materia, Energía y Vacío
Rafael Javier Martínez Olmo
E-mail: Rafael@gravityquantum.com

As light from the Sun takes 8.4 minutes to travel 1.93 millions miles
to Earth. But
Now gravitational time dilation is the effect of time passing at
different rates in regions of different gravitational potential which