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Article #984Re: WHY EINSTEIN STILL RULES
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:26
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On Nov 5, 1:44 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > In Einsteiniana: Why Einstein Rules is because when you set the speed of light = 1, that gives the AI Loons unilimited Galactic Discourse. So, that's also the people who understand how actually understand how real computers work actually invented Digital Books, Holograms, Post ACME Screwthreads, mp3, mpeg, PGP, All-In-One Printers, USB, Post Vax Bit Thrashing, Distributed Processing Software, Flash Memory, Bi-Optical Computers, Microwave Cooling, XML, Reverse Compilers, Self-Replicating Machines, Atomic Clock Wristwatches, CD+rw, DVD- rom, Cyber Batteries, Home Broadband, Compact Flourescent Lighting, Desktop Publishing, On-Line Publishing, Blue Ray, HDTV, Rapid Prototyping, UAVs, Post Watt Turbines, Post GM-nomics, and The 21st Century, Rather than idiot Relativity, AI, and Teleprompters to start with. > > 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
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