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| − | |The speed of light ''in vacuo'' varies, and may have been significantly higher in the distant past. This phenomenon is known as [[C decay]].<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Quantifying_Openmindedness&oldid=147388</ref> (That the speed of light is significantly different in different media (glass, water, etc.) has been known for hundreds of years, and is the basis for optics.) | + | |The speed of light varies.<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Quantifying_Openmindedness&oldid=147388</ref> |
| | |Physicists point out that the [[Theory of Relativity]] and [[Isaac Newton|Newtonian]] physics both demonstrate that the speed of light varies depending on the medium through which it is travelling. | | |Physicists point out that the [[Theory of Relativity]] and [[Isaac Newton|Newtonian]] physics both demonstrate that the speed of light varies depending on the medium through which it is travelling. |
| | |"So it turns out the speed of light might not be constant after all." <ref>https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092-speed-of-light-may-have-changed-recently</ref><ref>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184879-einsteinian-error-the-25-year-old-supernova-that-could-change-the-speed-of-light-forever</ref> Research shows that due to the impossibility of a perfect vacuum the idealized concept of 'the speed of light in a vacuum' cannot be achieved in practice. | | |"So it turns out the speed of light might not be constant after all." <ref>https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092-speed-of-light-may-have-changed-recently</ref><ref>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184879-einsteinian-error-the-25-year-old-supernova-that-could-change-the-speed-of-light-forever</ref> Research shows that due to the impossibility of a perfect vacuum the idealized concept of 'the speed of light in a vacuum' cannot be achieved in practice. |
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| | |Conservapedia asserts that the [[Theory of relativity]] is false, and creates the page [[Counterexamples to Relativity]], initially containing 10 counterexamples that include [[quantum entanglement]].<ref>http://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=724599</ref> The list of counterexamples grows to 50 over the next decade. Quantum entanglement now appears in items 6 and 21. | | |Conservapedia asserts that the [[Theory of relativity]] is false, and creates the page [[Counterexamples to Relativity]], initially containing 10 counterexamples that include [[quantum entanglement]].<ref>http://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=724599</ref> The list of counterexamples grows to 50 over the next decade. Quantum entanglement now appears in items 6 and 21. |
| − | |Widespread ridicule by [[liberal]]s across the internet.<ref>[http://www.conservapedia.com/Community_Portal/Archive_1#Two_millionth_page_view_for_the_.22Counterexamples_to_Relativity.22_page 2M page views]. Of the first 100 hits in a Google search, 97 were not supportive of Conservapedia's position. The authors' political views are not known.</ref> | + | |Widespread ridicule by [[liberal]]s across the internet.<ref>[http://www.conservapedia.com/Community_Portal/Archive_1#Two_millionth_page_view_for_the_.22Counterexamples_to_Relativity.22_page 2M page views]. In a Google search, many of the articles were [[liberal claptrap]].</ref> |
| | |The "Biggest Test Yet" shows that Einstein was wrong in his opposition to strict "Copenhagen" quantum mechanics. The test was about [[action-at-a-distance]] ([[quantum entanglement]])<ref>https://www.livescience.com/62523-physicists-crowdsource-a-reality-check.html LiveScience news article</ref><ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/Action_at_a_distance</ref> It was not about relativity. Yet, perhaps because of [[liberal bias]], anyone who questions relativity is unlikely to get a high school science teaching job, much less a PhD or college faculty position. | | |The "Biggest Test Yet" shows that Einstein was wrong in his opposition to strict "Copenhagen" quantum mechanics. The test was about [[action-at-a-distance]] ([[quantum entanglement]])<ref>https://www.livescience.com/62523-physicists-crowdsource-a-reality-check.html LiveScience news article</ref><ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/Action_at_a_distance</ref> It was not about relativity. Yet, perhaps because of [[liberal bias]], anyone who questions relativity is unlikely to get a high school science teaching job, much less a PhD or college faculty position. |
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| | |"Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravity waves predicted by the theory, none have ever been found."<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=852797</ref> | | |"Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravity waves predicted by the theory, none have ever been found."<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=852797</ref> |
| − | |While no one has observed [[gravitational waves]] with their own eyes, their existence is overwhelmingly accepted by everyone knowledgeable in the field.<ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>http://www.ligo.org/news/pressreleases.php</ref><ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/ligo20160211a</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160211v2</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/gravitational-waves-ripples-space-time-detected-first-time-n516566</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/it-wasn-t-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again-n593156</ref><ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-detect-second-gravitational-wave-einstein-predicted/</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160615</ref> | + | |[[Liberal]]s cling to their belief in [[gravitational waves]] similar to how they used to believe in life in outer space. |
| − | <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160615v2</ref><ref>https://phys.org/news/2017-06-gravitational-insight-black-holes.html</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36472434#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</ref>
| + | |No direct observation of gravitational waves has ever occurred. |
| − | |A Nobel prize was awarded for this discovery, and new discoveries in this field continue.
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