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Article #6989Re: RATIONALISM IN CRISIS (DEAD?)
From: vanep
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:48
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:48
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On Feb 27, 10:54 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/book.html > Chapter 14: "The equivalence principle has a striking consequence > concerning the behavior of clocks in a gravitational field. It implies > that higher clocks run faster than lower clocks. If you put a watch on > top of a tower, and then stand on the ground, you will see the watch > on the tower tick faster than an identical watch on your wrist. When > you take the watch down and compare it to the one on your wrist, it > will show more time elapsed." > > Two points: > > 1. The insignificant difference in field strength is irrelevant for > the effect predicted by Einsteinians (gravitational time dilation). > That is, the two watches can be regarded as placed in EXACTLY THE SAME > physical conditions and yet one of them proves slower than the other. > Effect without cause. > > 2. The effect predicted by Einsteinians (gravitational time dilation) > implicitly presupposes that the speed of light is CONSTANT in a > gravitational field. Yet all clever Einsteinians, even Divine Albert, > teach that the speed of light is VARIABLE in a gravitational field. > The scientific world is unable to see any contradiction. > > It should also be noted that the scientific world sees as entirely > rational consequences of Einstein's 1905 light postulate according to > which the long train is short (if trapped inside a short tunnel), the > 80m long pole is 40m long (if trapped inside a 40m long barn and > Einsteinians have forgotten to reopen the doors of the barn "pretty > quickly"), the bug is both dead and alive etc: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIyDfo_mY&mode=related&search= > > http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html > "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors > at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a > switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in > the barn....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an > instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you > close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open > them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the > contracted pole shut up in your barn." > > http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html > > Pentcho Valev > pva...@yahoo.com Rail on ignorant fool.
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