Einsteinians: Professors of Showbiz and Science Fiction

An amazingly correct analysis by a layman:

Letters to the Editor: Black holes and showbiz have one connection. I see Brian Cox, professor of showbiz and science fiction is soon to present in Canberra on the cosmos with its "dark energy and black holes," etc.

Meanwhile real scientists are searching for a paradigm shift away from "mathemagics", which routinely employs the concept of infinity to "prove" anything you like.

A black hole, for instance, has finite mass concentrated at its "singularity". The singularity has zero volume and infinite density.

The black hole has no gravitational force, only space-time curvature. There is infinite curvature at the singularity, which means infinite gravity.

Think about that. A finite mass is located in zero volume, it has infinite density and it has infinite gravity.

Do you think any such thing exists?

A black hole has never been observed. If a theorist is unable to discover real objects, which cause the observed effects, it is unscientific – indeed, it is fraudulent – to invent unreal objects and present them as a "factual" discovery of the cause of those effects.

More than a billion dollars has been spent on gravitational wave detectors so far but it is reported that the European Space Agency is planning a multibillion-dollar probe to be launched in about 17 years that would look for gravitational waves from space.

Clearly we don't understand gravity yet.

How about some real investigative reporting in physics instead of showbiz?

There's a great deal of public money to be saved, not least on Cox's show.

Wal Thornhill, Chapman
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Soon all professors of showbiz and science fiction will have to answer the "embarrassing question":

"This paper investigates an alternative possibility: that the critics were right and that the success of Einstein's theory in overcoming them was due to its strengths as an ideology rather than as a science. The clock paradox illustrates how relativity theory does indeed contain inconsistencies that make it scientifically problematic. These same inconsistencies, however, make the theory ideologically powerful. [...] The gatekeepers of professional physics in the universities and research institutes are disinclined to support or employ anyone who raises problems over the elementary inconsistencies of relativity. A winnowing out process has made it very difficult for critics of Einstein to achieve or maintain professional status. Relativists are then able to use the argument of authority to discredit these critics. Were relativists to admit that Einstein may have made a series of elementary logical errors, they would be faced with the embarrassing question of why this had not been noticed earlier. Under these circumstances the marginalisation of antirelativists, unjustified on scientific grounds, is eminently justifiable on grounds of realpolitik. Supporters of relativity theory have protected both the theory and their own reputations by shutting their opponents out of professional discourse. [...] The triumph of relativity theory represents the triumph of ideology not only in the profession of physics bur also in the philosophy of science." Peter Hayes, The Ideology of Relativity: The Case of the Clock Paradox http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/con...ent=a909857880

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