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Old April 13th 17, 03:52 PM posted to sci.astro
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This video shows water placed in a strong electric field, obviously able to produce unlimited amount of work at the expense of heat absorbed from the surroundings (no other source of energy is conceivable):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17UD1goTFhQ
"The Formation of the Floating Water Bridge including electric breakdowns"

Physicists watch the video - not one could think of a reason why the second law of thermodynamics should be questioned. Actually there are no thoughts at all in physicists' heads:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwe...hapter2.9.html
"Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."

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Old April 14th 17, 08:19 AM posted to sci.astro
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Consider a light source emitting a series of pulses equally distanced from one another. A stationary observer (receiver) measures the frequency of the pulses:

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ler_static.gif

The observer starts moving with constant speed towards the light source - the measured frequency increases:

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ector_blue.gif

Since the measured frequency increases, the speed of the pulses relative to the observer increases as well, in accordance with the formula

(measured frequency) = (speed of the pulses relative to the observer)/(distance between the pulses).

This simple conclusion is unattainable in Einstein's schizophrenic world - it is fatal for Einstein's relativity so the crimestop is absolute he

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwe...hapter3.4.html
"He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions - "the Party says the earth is flat", "the party says that ice is heavier than water" - and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as "two and two make five" were beyond his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain."

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Old April 19th 17, 12:31 PM posted to sci.astro
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"But today's leading gravity theorists are not downcast. To find out where they believe their subject is heading, Chown has talked with several experts, including the Canadian Nima Arkani-Hamed, a highly regarded theoretician based at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. Arkani-Hamed is optimistic that quantum theory and the basic theory of relativity are together leading us to a quantum theory of gravity and of the other fundamental forces of nature. He says experts are "pretty universally agreed" that their current best understanding of space and time is "doomed"." https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...s-chown-review

The basic theory of relativity is leading us to a quantum theory of gravity but the current best understanding of space and time is doomed! Bravo, Nima Arkani-Hamed! You are a very subtle practitioner of doublethink:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwe...hapter2.9.html
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary. [...] It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion ; the more intelligent, the less sane.."

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