From: spudnik on 31 Jan 2010 22:09 like stringtheory, only less so; SR and GR are "necessary, but insufficient." > Where has it *ever* been shown to be wrong ? thus: just me, believes the web, and I am probably lying about that. thus: may we call it, the hypostential ur-stuff?... so, if you are going to create a theory, what is an experiment that would show any thing, other than ordinary matter & antimatter would necessitate? > Mass NEVER displaces ether!! Ether flow through mass is required for thus: Brun's constant is the sum of the reciprocals of the twin primes; is it transcendental? --les OEuvres! http://wlym.com
From: Pentcho Valev on 7 Feb 2010 05:45 According to some Einsteinians, Einstein's 1905 false light postulate is in fact a consequence of idiotic effects known as length contraction and time dilation: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001661/01/Minkowski.pdf Harvey R. Brown and Oliver Pooley: "What has been shown is that rods and clocks must behave in quite particular ways in order for the two postulates [of special relativity] to be true together. But this hardly amounts to an explanation of such behaviour. Rather things go the other way around. It is because rods and clocks behave as they do, in a way that is consistent with the relativity principle, that light is measured to have the same speed in each inertial frame." That is, Einstein's 1905 false light postulate is true only if a long train can be trapped inside a short tunnel, an 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug can be both dead and alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIyDfo_mY&mode=related&search http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be trapped in a compressed state inside the barn." http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html "The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just 0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the bug....The paradox is not resolved." Pentcho Valev pvalev(a)yahoo.com
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