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On Nov 20, 12:20 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18068-universes-quantum-speed-b...
> "Einstein's theory of special relativity says that all electromagnetic
> radiation travels through a vacuum at the speed of light. This speed
> is predicted to be constant, regardless of the energy of the
> radiation. Yet in 2005, the MAGIC gamma-ray telescope on La Palma in
> the Canary Islands suggested the speed of light might not be constant
> after all. The telescope, which measured the light released by a
> galaxy around 500 million light years away, found that higher energy
> photons arrived four minutes behind their lower energy counterparts.
> (...) Now new observations suggest quantum gravity cannot be
> responsible for the time delay observed by MAGIC. The light from a
> powerful, 7-billion year old gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Fermi
> Gamma-ray Space Telescope shows no evidence of a lag between photons
> of a range of energies. "We have fewer stomach aches now," says
> Amelino-Camelia. "The Fermi data has pushed the limit where it's now
> proven the MAGIC data cannot be interpreted in that way."
>
> The MAGIC data cannot be interpreted in that way? That is, "quantum
> gravity cannot be responsible for the time delay observed by MAGIC"?
> Then what is the only reasonable conclusion? Three possible versions:
>
> BURST OF SUPPORT FOR RELATIVITY
>
> EINSTEIN STILL RULES
>
> EINSTEINIANA IS AN ETERNAL MONEY-SPINNER
>
> Pentcho Valev wrote:
>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7271/full/462291a.html
> NATURE: "Burst of support for relativity. Light from a distant gamma-
> ray burst backs up a key prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of
> relativity - that photon speed is the same regardless of energy."
>
> 1. Observations suggest that high-energy photons travel through space
> slower than low-energy photons.
>
> 2. Einsteinians (Lee Smolin and brothers in this case) advance
> theories predicting that that high-energy photons travel slower than
> low-energy photons. Career, money etc.
>
> 3. A single observation suggests that high-energy photons travel
> through space slower than low-energy photons but the difference in
> speed is small.
>
> 4. Einsteinians (Lee Smolin and brothers again) discover "a key
> prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity - that photon
> speed is the same regardless of energy".
>
> 5. Einsteinians (Lee Smolin and brothers again) make a second
> discovery: the single observation confirms the "key prediction of
> Albert Einstein's theory of relativity" and therefore there is "burst
> of support for relativity" in the world.
>
> 6. The journal Nature immediately publishes Lee Smolin and brothers'
> discoveries. Career, money etc. for Nature editors, Lee Smolin,
> brothers and sycophants.
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

Einstein's space curve is round.

Mitch Raemsch