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Re: RATIONALISM IN CRISIS (DEAD?)

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From: vanep
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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