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On Aug 27, 6:35 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/25/gravity-wave-hun...
> "Physicists in Washington State and Louisiana recently spent two years
> hunting for the mysterious gravitational waves first predicted by
> Einstein, but detected nothing: zilch, zero, nada, nary a ripple. But
> that "null result" is itself of great value, researchers say, because
> it tells them where to look for the waves next."

   Relativity is by ex post facto immortal, since the only thing
universities even
   teach anymore is Philosophy. So the post Galileoers just keep
working
   on the Electronic Books, On-Line Publishing, Holograhics, and Self-
Assembling Robots.





>
> So "physicists in Washington State and Louisiana" are going to waste
> some more money but in the end Sir Martin Rees, capo di tutti capi in
> Einsteiniana, will put an end to their campaign:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2004/0...
> "Did Einstein get all his sums right?.....Last week, an American probe
> began an 18-month mission to put Einstein's prediction to the test, 90
> years after he unveiled his ideas in Berlin. Gravity Probe B was
> blasted into space from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on
> a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and will orbit the Earth for more than a year.
> The $700 million joint mission between Nasa and Stanford University,
> conceived in 1958, uses four of the most perfect spheres ever created
> inside the world's largest Thermos flask to detect minute distortions
> in the fabric of the universe.....Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer
> Royal, said: "The project's a technical triumph, and a triumph of the
> persistence and lobbying power of Stanford University. But its
> gestation has been grotesquely prolonged, and the cost overruns have
> been equally gross. I recall hearing a talk about the project from
> Francis Everitt (principal investigator) when I was still a student –
> and it was already well advanced. "Back in the 1960s the evidence for
> Einstein's theory was meagre – just two tests, with 10 per cent
> precision. But relativity is now confirmed by several tests, with
> precision of one part in 10,000. It's still, in principle, good to
> have new and different tests. But the level of confidence in
> Einstein's theory is now so high that an announcement of the expected
> result will 'fork no lightening'. "Moreover, if there's an unexpected
> result, I suspect most people will suspect an error in this very
> challenging experiment rather than immediately abandon Einstein:
> There's now so much evidence corroborating Einstein, that a high
> burden of proof is required before he'll be usurped by any rival
> theory. "So the most exciting – if un-alluring – outcome of Gravity
> Probe B would be a request by Stanford University for another huge sum
> of money to repeat it."
>
> Of course, waste of money and destruction of human rationality never
> stop in Einsteiniana; some old forgotten "challenge" will be
> revitalized once the gravity wave campaign is over, for instance:
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105150837.htm
> "Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way
> to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of
> Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If
> confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the basic tenet that the
> laws of physics remain the same for any two objects traveling at a
> constant speed or rotated relative to one another."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com