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On Mar 1, 8:36 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote in
sci.physics.relativity:
> On Feb 29, 10:00 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/02/28/brian-greene-time-oped-time08-cx_bg_0229physics.html
> > Brian Greene: "By 1915, with his "General Theory of Relativity,"
> > Einstein took these realizations one step further, concluding that
> > something similar happens in a gravitational field. He figured out
> > that the stronger the gravity you experience, the slower time elapses.
> > After synchronizing our watches, were I to stay in the lobby of the
> > Empire State Building while you went sightseeing on the observation
> > deck, I would experience stronger gravity (being closer to Earth) and
> > according to Einstein, when we rejoin, my watch would be behind yours.
> > The effect would be incredibly small, since the difference in gravity
> > you and I would experience is trifling."
>
> > Silly Brian does not even understand that the idiocy called
> > "gravitational time dilation", as defined by his cleverer brothers,
> > depends on the GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL difference between "you and
> > me", not on "the difference in gravity you and I would experience".
>
> Silly Brian is even clearer here:
>
> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05EED81E3EF932A35752C0A9629C8B63
> Brian Greene: "In the early part of the 20th century, however, Albert
> Einstein saw through nature's Newtonian facade and revealed that the
> passage of time depends on circumstance and environment. He showed
> that the wristwatches worn by two individuals moving relative to one
> another, or EXPERIENCING DIFFERENT GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS, tick off time
> at different rates."

Silly Brian is walking in an incomparably silly manner here:

http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=989
Question: "You say that a particle on one side of the universe can
influence the action of a sister particle on the other side of the
universe instantaneously. Does this violate Einstein's statement that
nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?"
Brian Greene: "It is a delicate question, but most physicists would
say no. The influence is such that no information can be sent from
place to place at faster than light speed, and many believe that's
enough to avoid conflict with Einstein's recognition that light sets a
cosmic speed limit. I am among those who take this point of view, but
as I stress in the book, this issue--due to remaining conundrums
surrounding quantum mechanics--is not fully settled."

Even silly walkers at the Perimeter Institute are unable to produce
anything comparable to silly Brian's silly walk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

Pentcho Valev
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