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Article #5655Re: THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE UNFINISHED SECOND REVOLUTION
From: Don Stockbauer
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:12
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:12
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On Feb 4, 1:08 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The Royal Society performed the first revolution in 1919 but: > > http://philipball.blogspot.com/2007/09/arthur-eddington-was-innocent-... > "With the technology then available, measuring the bending of > starlight was very challenging. And contrary to popular belief, > Newtonian physics did not predict that light would remain undeflected > - Einstein himself pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should > cause some deviation too. So the matter was not that of an all-or- > nothing shift in stars' positions, but hinged on the exact numbers." > > The Royal Society should have considered Einstein's 1911 equation > c'=c(1+V/c^2): it is consistent with the gravitational redshift factor > 1+V/c^2 confirmed experimentally and therefore "Newtonian gravity" > correctly predicts the variation of the speed of light in a > gravitational field. On the other hand, Einstein's "theory" turned out > to be an incomparable money-spinner so Einstein's 1911 equation > c'=c(1+V/c^2) was swept under the rug. > > Twelve years ago (the Royal Society is still just shocking the public > and making money): > > http://www.totse.com/en/technology/space_astronomy_nasa/ftltravl.html > "ASTRONOMERS PREDICT FASTER THAN LIGHT SPACE TRAVEL. It is boldly > going where no reputable scientific body has gone before. > Contradicting Einstein, the normally conservative Royal Astronomical > Society is about to publish a report predicting that mankind will be > able to travel faster than the speed of light. The breakthrough means > that Star Trek fantasies of interstellar civilisations and voyages > powered by warp drive are now no longer the exclusive domain of > science fiction writers...Crawford argues that modern physics may > allow two possible ways around Einstein's theory....The theories will > boost growing interest among scientists in the possibility of > travelling faster than light. The IPS, whose members include several > NASA engineers, starts its first conference shortly in Halifax, Nova > Scotia." > > Six years ago (concern is growing in the Royal Society, a second > revolution may be just around the corner): > > http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts > "A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned that the laws > thought to govern the universe, including Albert Einstein's theory of > relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which includes Professor > Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, say such > laws may only work for our universe but not in others that are now > also thought to exist.....AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION IS > EINSTEIN'S BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME - > 186,000 miles a second in a vacuum.....Rees, Hawking and others are so > concerned at the impact of such ideas that they recently organised a > private conference in Cambridge for more than 30 leading > cosmologists." > > Recent hints at a second revolution: > > http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=3880 > Royal Society: "Newton beats Einstein in polls of scientists and the > public." > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2005/0... > Martin Rees: "Although there's something rather noble about the way he > persevered in his attempts to reach far beyond his grasp, in some > respects the Einstein cult sends the wrong signal. It unduly exalts > "armchair theory", which by itself would achieve little." > > And yet the Royal Society's second revolution remains unfinished. It > really is just around the corner: "AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION IS > EINSTEIN'S BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME - > 186,000 miles a second in a vacuum." > > Pentcho Valev > pva...@yahoo.com Do you also not believe in simple addition?
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