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The Einstein Revolution? Doublethink at UCSB
http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016562...ein-revolution
" The Einstein Revolution. In celebration of Einstein's birthday, physicists reflect on the German-born scientist's work and its impact on the field and on everyday life. "We have good reason to believe general relativity is not a complete theory and, in particular, that it's going to break down in the context of describing black holes," said UCSB physics professor Steve Giddings. "That's very much an important problem in physics today. "The direct observation of gravitational waves from colliding black holes really constrains the possible departures from general relativity that we know are there and limits where modifications can be made," he continued. "But the discovery is still spectacular and its announcement was one of those moments in science that you live for." " Steve Giddings lives for gravitational waves, the ripples of spacetime, knowing that spacetime itself is a wrong concept: https://edge.org/response-detail/25477 What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings: "Spacetime. Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime... (...) The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound..." Why should spacetime be retired? Because it is an "immediate consequence" of Einstein's 1905 false constant-speed-of-light postulate. Since the "immediate consequence" is wrong, the premise (postulate) cannot be true: http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/20...rs-of-gravity/ "Baumgarte began by discussing special relativity, which Einstein developed, 10 years earlier, in 1905, while he was employed as a patent officer in Bern, Switzerland. Special relativity is based on the observation that the speed of light is always the same, independently of who measures it, or how fast the source of the light is moving with respect to the observer. Einstein demonstrated that as an immediate consequence, space and time can no longer be independent, but should rather be considered a new joint entity called "spacetime." Pentcho Valev |
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