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Re: WHY EINSTEIN STILL RULES

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From: BURT
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:55
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On Nov 19, 7:15 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> 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 wrote:
>
> In Einsteiniana:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.800-13-more-things-mag...
> "In 2005, researchers at the MAGIC gamma-ray telescope on La Palma in
> the Canary Islands were studying gamma-ray bursts emitted by the black
> hole in the centre of the Markarian 501 galaxy, half a billion light
> years away. The burst's high-energy gamma rays arrived at the
> telescope 4 minutes later than the lower-energy rays. Both parts of
> the spectrum should have been emitted at the same time. So is the time
> lag due to the high-energy radiation travelling slower through space?
> That wouldn't make sense: it would contravene one of the central
> tenets of special relativity. According to Einstein, all
> electromagnetic radiation always travels through vacuum at the cosmic
> speed limit the speed of light. The energy of the radiation should be
> absolutely irrelevant."
>
> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/11/04/gamma-rays-einstein.html
> "At stake was nothing less than a foundation of modern physics --
> Einstein's theory of relativity, which posits that all electromagnetic
> radiation travels at the same speed, whether low-energy radio waves,
> high-energy X-rays or gamma rays, or any wavelength in between. (...)
> After a journey of more than 7 billion light-years, however, the gamma
> ray photons arrived nine-tenths of a second apart on May 9, 2009 --
> not enough of a lag to account for the theorized quantum effects.
> "Einstein, at this point, wins again," Michelson said."
>
> http://live.psu.edu/story/42610
> "Of the many gamma-ray photons detected by Fermi from the 2.1-second
> burst, two had energies differing by a million times. Yet after
> traveling some seven billion years, the pair of photons arrived just
> nine-tenths of a second apart. "This measurement eliminates any
> approach to a new theory of gravity that predicts a strong energy-
> dependent change in the speed of light," Michelson said. The long-
> distance experiment showed that "To one part in 100 million billion,
> these two photons traveled at the same speed. "EINSTEIN STILL RULES,"
> Michelson said."
>
> In Big Brother's world:
>
> http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
> George Orwell: "In the end the Party would announce that two and two
> made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that
> they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their
> position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the
> very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their
> philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was
> terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise,
> but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two
> and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the
> past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist
> only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?"
>
> Breathtaking news in Big Brother's world: In 2005, researchers at the
> MAGIC gamma-ray telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands added two
> and two and did not get five, but then Stanford University's Peter
> Michelson, the lead scientist on the Fermi Large Area Telescope, added
> two and two again and did not get five either. "BIG BROTHER STILL
> RULES," Michelson said.
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

He found the principle behind the LASER. He could have won a nobel
prize for that.
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