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Talk:Counterexamples to Relativity (view source)
Revision as of 04:53, November 13, 2011
, 04:53, November 13, 2011→A couple more problems
::Because <s>God</s> <s>psychotic rambling homophobic momma's boy</s> Andy Schlafly said so. You have to turn off your <s>indoctrinated</s> educated mind... --[[User:RudrickBoucher|RudrickBoucher]] 21:36, 2 November 2011 (EDT)
::Because <s>God</s> <s>psychotic rambling homophobic momma's boy</s> Andy Schlafly said so. You have to turn off your <s>indoctrinated</s> educated mind... --[[User:RudrickBoucher|RudrickBoucher]] 21:36, 2 November 2011 (EDT)
There are so many problems with this page I don't know where to start. Whomever wrote it is obviously clueless about science and its
methods. a Few of the problems include:
1. Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravity waves predicted by the theory, none has ever been found.
The lack of experimental confirmation ''so far'' of gravity waves does NOT falsify the theory. Absence of evidence is not evidence of
absence.
3. Subatomic particles have a speed observed to be faster than the speed of light, which contradicts a fundamental assumption of
Relativity.
Only in experiments that have yet to be confirmed.
7. The acceleration in the expansion of the universe confounds relativity
Untrue. The EFEs contain a term (the cosmological constant) that fully accounts for accelerated expansion.
10. The logical problem of a force which is applied at a right angle to the velocity of a relativistic mass
What logical problem? I studied physics at the graduate level and have never heard of any logical problem. ?
13. The action-at-a-distance of quantum entanglement
AAAD is a matter of interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. In any case, it does NOT Falsify GRT as no information is propagated faster
than light.
14. The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54, Matthew 15:28, and Matthew 27:51.
See 13 (above). This statement also assumes that the action-at-a-distance by Jesus described in the Bible actually happened. It is not
"true and verifiable".
15. The failure to discover gravitons, despite wasting hundreds of millions in taxpayer money in searching.
Gravitons are the quanta of gravity waves. See #1.
18. The inability of the theory to lead to other insights, contrary to every verified theory of physics.
The ability to lead to other insights has never been a test of the validity of a scientific theory, and lack of consequent insight does not
falsify a theory.
26. The lack of useful devices developed based on any insights provided by the theory; no lives have been saved or helped, and the
theory has not led to other useful theories and may have interfered with scientific progress.
Development of useful devices is a matter of engineering, and is not a test of a scientific theories validity.
27. Relativity requires different values for the inertia of a moving object: in its direction of motion, and perpendicular to that direction.
This contradicts the logical principle that the laws of physics are the same in all directions.
The priniciple of isotropy does not falisfy Relativity. The theory itself accounts for, and predicts, the difference in observed inertia.
28. Relativity requires that anything traveling at the speed of light must have mass zero, so it must have momentum zero. But the laws
of electrodynamics require that light have nonzero momentum.
And Relativity also shows that photons have non-zero momentum. Relativistic systems can have non-zero momentum even with no
rest mass.
31. The Twin Paradox: Consider twins who are separated with one traveling at a very high speed such that his "clock" (age) slows
down, so that when he returns he has a younger age than the twin; this violates Relativity because both twins should expect the other to
be younger, if motion is relative. Einstein himself admitted that this contradicts Relativity
Incorrect, as this only takes Special Relativity into account. This is a common fallacy. It is the acceleration required to return the twin
that accounts for the difference in clocks and is explained/predicted by General Relativity. One must take both SRT and GRT into
account.
32. Based on Relativity, Einstein claimed in 1909 that the aether does not exist, but in order to make subatomic physics work right,
theorists had to introduce the aether-like concept of the Higgs field, which fills all of space and breaks symmetries.
Fields do not constitute an "aether". The EM field exists (and was explained/predicted by Maxwell long before Eistein).
34 (a). In Genesis 1:6-8, we are told that one of God's first creations was a firmament in the heavens.
How is such an account "true and verifiable"?
34(b). This likely refers to the creation of the luminiferous aether.
Something that is "likely" does not falsify a scientific theory.
35. Minkowski space is predicated on the idea of four-dimensional vectors of which one component is time. However, one of the
properties of a vector space is that every vector have an inverse. Time cannot be a vector because it has no inverse.
This is not an argument against applied mathematics, not against Relativity per se.
37. Despite a century of wasting billions of dollars in work on the theory, "No one knows how to solve completely the equations of general relativity that describe gravity; they are simply beyond current understanding.
This does not falsify the theory.
~~csmcmillion