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On Nov 5, 1:05 pm, BURT <macromi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 10:44 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > In Einsteiniana:
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> >http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.800-13-more-things-mag...
> > "In 2005, researchers at the MAGIC gamma-ray telescope on La Palma in
> > the Canary Islands were studying gamma-ray bursts emitted by the black
> > hole in the centre of the Markarian 501 galaxy, half a billion light
> > years away. The burst's high-energy gamma rays arrived at the
> > telescope 4 minutes later than the lower-energy rays. Both parts of
> > the spectrum should have been emitted at the same time. So is the time
> > lag due to the high-energy radiation travelling slower through space?
> > That wouldn't make sense: it would contravene one of the central
> > tenets of special relativity. According to Einstein, all
> > electromagnetic radiation always travels through vacuum at the cosmic
> > speed limit the speed of light. The energy of the radiation should be
> > absolutely irrelevant."
>
> >http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/11/04/gamma-rays-einstein.html
> > "At stake was nothing less than a foundation of modern physics --
> > Einstein's theory of relativity, which posits that all electromagnetic
> > radiation travels at the same speed, whether low-energy radio waves,
> > high-energy X-rays or gamma rays, or any wavelength in between. (...)
> > After a journey of more than 7 billion light-years, however, the gamma
> > ray photons arrived nine-tenths of a second apart on May 9, 2009 --
> > not enough of a lag to account for the theorized quantum effects.
> > "Einstein, at this point, wins again," Michelson said."
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> >http://live.psu.edu/story/42610
> > "Of the many gamma-ray photons detected by Fermi from the 2.1-second
> > burst, two had energies differing by a million times. Yet after
> > traveling some seven billion years, the pair of photons arrived just
> > nine-tenths of a second apart. "This measurement eliminates any
> > approach to a new theory of gravity that predicts a strong energy-
> > dependent change in the speed of light," Michelson said. The long-
> > distance experiment showed that "To one part in 100 million billion,
> > these two photons traveled at the same speed. "EINSTEIN STILL RULES,"
> > Michelson said."
>
> > In Big Brother's world:
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> >http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
> > George Orwell: "In the end the Party would announce that two and two
> > made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that
> > they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their
> > position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the
> > very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their
> > philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was
> > terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise,
> > but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two
> > and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the
> > past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist
> > only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?"
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> > Breathtaking news in Big Brother's world: In 2005, researchers at the
> > MAGIC gamma-ray telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands added two
> > and two and did not get five, but then Stanford University's Peter
> > Michelson, the lead scientist on the Fermi Large Area Telescope, added
> > two and two again and did not get five either. "BIG BROTHER STILL
> > RULES,"Michelson said.
>
> > Pentcho Valev
> > pva...@yahoo.com
>
> I think that Einstein's legacy stuck because of his gravity theory.
>
> Mitch Raemsch

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