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Article #1002Re: WHY EINSTEIN STILL RULES
From: HW Wilson DSc .
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:46
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:46
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On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:55:47 -0800 (PST), Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Cosmological observations should not be used as evidence for or
>against fundamental theories (Einstein's relativity) for the simple
>reason that they are contaminated with lots of explicit or implicit
>auxiliary hypotheses, hypotheses that do not belong to the fundamental
>theory. In the case discussed below the observation that high-energy
>photons arrive later than low-energy ones is accompanied by the
>following hypothesis:
>
>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18068-universes-quantum-speed-bumps-no-obstacle-for-light.html
>"If space-time is grainy, higher-energy photons would move more slowly
>than their lower-energy counterparts. That's because higher-energy
>photons have smaller wavelengths, which makes them more sensitive to
>tiny fluctuations in space-time."
Notice the use of the term 'space-time' when it is SPACE that is being
discussed. This is just a ploy to give the reader the impression that the
writer is intelligent.
In reality, nothing 'moves' in space time.
>A much more reasonable hypothesis as to why high-energy photons travel
Henry Wilson...www.scisite.info/index.htm
Einstein...World's greatest SciFi writer..
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