On Apr 24, 11:04 am, Stamp wrote:
In article .com,





oriel36 wrote:
On Apr 20, 3:16 pm, Andy Guthrie wrote:
"Early results from a Nasa mission designed to test two key predictions
of Albert Einstein show the great man was right about at least one of them."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6561391.stm

So that's a relief then ...

Your attributions are incorrect,the 1898 science fiction novel first
came up with the notion of time ans space as a single 4th dimensional
unit.It may be only for the purposes of a fictional narrative
neccessity but it precedes the 1905 concept of Albert by 7 years -

" 'Scientific people,' proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause
required for the proper assimilation of this, 'know very well that
Time is only a kind of Space."

http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html

In short,relativity is just an exotic extension of the Newtonian
scaffolding which in turn is built on Flamsteed's celestial sphere
structure and a catastrophic error in justifying the motions of the
Earth using the return of a star to a meridian.

It costs a billion dollars to prove H.G.Well's right when you could
have just gone straight to the conclusion of the wonderful fictional
book -

http://www.bartleby.com/1000/13.html

I like many others trust in things being scientifically proven, not in
fictional books however entertaining.- Hide quoted text -

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You should have checked the dates before you replied ,the fictional
narrative of the 'Time Machine' and its 4th dimensional 'spacetime'
was written in 1898 which precedes the 'spacetime' ideas by nearly a
decade.It would not matter if the idea of 4th dimensional geometry was
written two weeks before the early 20th century precepts emerged,the
formal 'scientific' version still matches the conclusion of a sci-fi
novel .

Want to see it again -

"'Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some
people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it.
It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no difference
between time and any of the three dimensions of space " H.G. Wells

http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html

It should be embarrassing to find yourself promoting a 1898 fictional
logic,something the author did not even intend but there you have it.A
billion dollar satellite that restates what the fictional 'Time
traveller' in the novel does -

Question 42 Relativity FAQ
http://einstein.stanford.edu/

"What does the word 'spacetime' mean?
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It means that in our universe, 3-dimensional space and time form a
single indivisible new physical object which has 4 dimensions. All
physical laws and phenomena seem to require thinking about space and
time as this blended object. That's what Einstein's relativity
theories were all about. " Gravity probe b

Again,that 'spacetime' rubbish all goes back to the mistake by John
Flamsteed