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Article #15732Re: How Relativists Waste a Shitload of Other People's Money on Nothing
From: Ian Parker
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:59
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:59
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On 2 Aug, 10:09, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Aug 2, 2:39 am, Traveler <noasskiss...@nowhere.net> wrote in > sci.physics: > > > Gravitational Wave Theory Takes Another Kick in the Teeth:http://www.astroengine.com/?p=565 > > > The conclusion is obvious to anybody who does not kiss ass for a > > living. Gravity does not propagate at the speed of light as Einstein > > and his followers predict. Gravity is a universal, > > quasi-instantaneous, non-local, energy conservation phenomenon. No > > gravitational waves simply means that the general theory of relativity > > is falsified. ahahaha... > > > Louis Savain > > > Rebel Science News:http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/ > > Einsteiniana wastes so much money that sometimes even the bosses get > embarrassed: > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2004/0... > "Did Einstein get all his sums right?.....Last week, an American probe > began an 18-month mission to put Einstein's prediction to the test, 90 > years after he unveiled his ideas in Berlin. Gravity Probe B was > blasted into space from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on > a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and will orbit the Earth for more than a year. > The $700 million joint mission between Nasa and Stanford University, > conceived in 1958, uses four of the most perfect spheres ever created > inside the world's largest Thermos flask to detect minute distortions > in the fabric of the universe.....Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer > Royal, said: "The project's a technical triumph, and a triumph of the > persistence and lobbying power of Stanford University. But its > gestation has been grotesquely prolonged, and the cost overruns have > been equally gross. I recall hearing a talk about the project from > Francis Everitt (principal investigator) when I was still a student - > and it was already well advanced. "Back in the 1960s the evidence for > Einstein's theory was meagre - just two tests, with 10 per cent > precision. But relativity is now confirmed by several tests, with > precision of one part in 10,000. It's still, in principle, good to > have new and different tests. But the level of confidence in > Einstein's theory is now so high that an announcement of the expected > result will 'fork no lightening'. "Moreover, if there's an unexpected > result, I suspect most people will suspect an error in this very > challenging experiment rather than immediately abandon Einstein: > There's now so much evidence corroborating Einstein, that a high > burden of proof is required before he'll be usurped by any rival > theory. "So the most exciting - if un-alluring - outcome of Gravity > Probe B would be a request by Stanford University for another huge sum > of money to repeat it." > > Pentcho Valev > pva...@yahoo.com And how much is going on Iraq? - Ian Parker
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