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Re: energy and mass

Subject Re: energy and mass
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, sci.electronics.design, sci.math
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From Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date 2026-03-18 07:32 -0700
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On 03/17/2026 09:49 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 18/03/2026 4:34 am, The Starmaker wrote:
>> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>
>>> On 17/03/2026 7:14 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17/03/2026 2:55 am, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 16/03/2026 3:42 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 13/03/2026 8:24 pm, Thomas Heger wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Am Donnerstag000012, 12.03.2026 um 12:29 schrieb Bill Sloman:
>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and isn't worth the effort until you have lots of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> observations to make sense of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nonsense. Your naive positivism is playing up again.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best counterexample: general relativity.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It wasn't based on any observation.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, it was based on some madness of an
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> insane crazy instead.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Einstein was about as sane as anybody could be.
>>>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I personally think, that Einstein was what I would call a
>>>>>>>>>>>> 'disinformation agent'.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You are free to think that. I wouldn't go around telling
>>>>>>>>>>> other people
>>>>>>>>>>> that you think that - it would suggest that you had a rather
>>>>>>>>>>> poor
>>>>>>>>>>> grasp of reality
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Most likely he wasn't even a Jew and a Swiss from birth.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Lots of people were happy to claim him as being Jewish after
>>>>>>>>>>> he got
>>>>>>>>>>> famous.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If Einstein wasn't actually a Jew, this would be a possible
>>>>>>>>>> explanation
>>>>>>>>>> for why he rejected the presidency of Israel, which was
>>>>>>>>>> offered to him.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Would have been quite dangerous, if he had actually accepted
>>>>>>>>>> and would
>>>>>>>>>> been asked to prove his jewishness.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A much more likely explanation is that he didn't fancy becoming
>>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>>> kind of figurehead to be rolled out on ceremonial occasions.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It would have distracted him from the scientific work that he
>>>>>>>>> kept on
>>>>>>>>> doing all his life.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oh Yes, the  scientific work that he kept on
>>>>>>>> doing all his life was figuring out how to teleport a Navy war
>>>>>>>> ship from
>>>>>>>> one city to another city...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Einstein was working on...Quantum Teleportation. Called "The
>>>>>>>> Einstein's
>>>>>>>> Continuum of Spatio-Temporal"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "The Einstein's continuum of spatio-temporal which enabled idea of
>>>>>>>> quantum teleportation, which represents technique of
>>>>>>>> dematerialization
>>>>>>>> of the matter, in one location and 'faxing', namely, electronic
>>>>>>>> transmission to quantum state on the other
>>>>>>>> location, in order to be materialized there."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (dematerialization in one location, and materialized on the other
>>>>>>>> location).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Larry Niven described it better - as a science fiction author he
>>>>>>> had to.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Attributing it to Einstein seems to be pure invention. It didn't
>>>>>>> show up
>>>>>>> in 1950's science fiction, and Einstein died in 1955.
>>>>>>>> Put simply, it would get you from here to there...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You. or something that might look very like you. Transforming
>>>>>>> some 70kgm
>>>>>>> of matter into energy and transforming it back to matter implies
>>>>>>> transmitting great deal of energy. A hydrogen bomb transforms
>>>>>>> 0.7kgm of
>>>>>>> mass into energy. Transforming the energy into exactly the right
>>>>>>> sort of
>>>>>>> matter to exactly duplicate you might be tricky
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "exactly duplicate", or making a copy is not how it works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is simply a 'cut and paste'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You cut it from and paste it there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like on a computer..
>>>>>> you just highlight the whole folder with a blue light, then you,
>>>>>> you...cut-and-paste it
>>>>>> to your other hard drive and it reappears there!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not copy and paste, cut and paste.
>>>>>
>>>>> A distinction without meaning. "Cut and paste" is just "copy and
>>>>> paste"
>>>>> followed by "delete the original". Somebody with a very tight memory
>>>>> budget might cut, paste and delete in very small chunks.
>>>>>
>>>>>> You scan each atom
>>>>>> delete it. and paste it there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which would mean that there would be a point where you'd have half a
>>>>> person at each end of the link, both dead, unless you could
>>>>> complete the
>>>>> process in less than a millisecond.
>>>>>
>>>>>> spooky at a distance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why do you think Einstein didn't finish it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you any evidence to suggest that Einstein even started on it?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, you gave us the evidence.
>>>>
>>>> You wrote: "It would have distracted him from the scientific work that
>>>> he kept on doing all his life."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You were referring to his Grand Unified Theory he was working on all
>>>> his
>>>> life.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think  the Grand Unified Theory 'is'?
>>>
>>> It includes gravity as well as electromagnetism and the weak and strong
>>> nuclear forces.
>>>
>>>> In 'science jargon' it's: 'When a mass moves, the force acting on other
>>>> masses had been considered to adjust instantaneously to the new
>>>> location
>>>> of the displaced mass.'
>>>>
>>>> In other words... make a ship invisible and transport it to another
>>>> place.
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>>> You scan the atom (all the atoms) of the ship, delete it, and paste it
>>>> another place.
>>>
>>> Lovely if you could do it, but you probably need to invent a new
>>> universe with new and different physical laws to make it possible
>>>
>>>> "The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has stated that the use of force
>>>> fields to make a ship and her crew invisible does not conform to known
>>>> physical laws.
>>>> ONR also claims that Dr. Albert Einstein's Unified Field Theory was
>>>> never completed.
>>>> During 1943-1944, Einstein was a part-time consultant with the Navy's
>>>> Bureau of Ordnance, undertaking theoretical research on explosives and
>>>> explosions. "
>>>
>>> The Bureau of Ordance wanted a celebrity name to play with.
>>>
>>>> I think I have around somewhere a blackboard with all the math on it
>>>> 'about getting from here to there' teleportation...celestial mechanics.
>>>>
>>>> https://x.com/Starmaker111/status/2033817198998000030/photo/1
>>>>
>>>> but it is not finished...
>>>
>>> Like a lot of other research projects. Mostly when you dig deep enough,
>>> you find out that an idea is never going to work. If your success rate
>>> is better than 30% you are going to get scooped by other researchers
>>> uncomfortably often.
>>>
>>> Good ideas have a nasty habit of striking different people in different
>>> places at much the same time. A friend ended up making $A12 million out
>>> of an idea he patented. Tektronix had applied for a provisional patent
>>> six weeks earlier, but abandoned it without spending the much larger
>>> sums that would have been required to register an actual patent.
>>
>> It's also not science fiction as you claim to be...\\
>
> It certainly is science fiction, which doesn't stop people having
> half-baked ideas about using it in real life.
>
>> Using refined tools and long series of experiments, Anton Zeilinger
>> started to use entangled quantum states.
>> Among other things, his research group has demonstrated a phenomenon
>> called quantum teleportation, which makes it possible to move a
>> quantum state from one particle to one at a distance.
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=4ae20d8bd47daad1&hl=en&gbv=2&sxsrf=ANbL-n4iBGManDUb2_O74J964ltj7MZlqg%3A1773767645872&q=nobel+prize+quantum+teleportation
>>
>
> A quantum state doesn't have any mass.
>
>> The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F.
>> Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger
>> for their pioneering work on quantum entanglement, which laid the
>> foundation for the field of quantum information science, including
>> quantum teleportation.
>>
>> https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/#:~:text=Using%20refined%20tools%20and%20long,the%20Nobel%20Committee%20for%20Physics.
>>
>>
>> and that 'blackboard' is Albert Einstein's promotion for...teleportation.
>>
>> https://x.com/Starmaker111/status/2033817198998000030/photo/1 >
>> 'beam me up, Scotty.'
>
> Since Scotty was always pixels on a screen, \it an illusion.
>
>> I notice you have a Scottish accent...
>
> Via my wife I hung out with quite a few dialect experts. My accent is
> educated Australian, slightly soften by 22 years living in England. One
> work colleague - with whom I'm still in contact - is Scottish, but I
> don't seem to have picked up his accent.
>
>> are you slow?
>
> My surname is a west country surname - there are more pages of Slomans
> in the Taunton telephone directory than in the London telephone
> directory - and it is a contraction of Sloughman, who was some who
> farmed bottom land close to a river.
>
> I'm not slow - both my parents had university degrees and I got a Ph.D.
> All my nieces and nephews have been to university and graduated - one
> now works for Google. My father's sister married a very clever vet, who
> ended up with a D.Sc, and both their kids were professors at Adelaide
> University for a bit. It isn't a high prestige school and both moved on
> to better jobs. That is the clever branch of the family. My father's 25
> patents - I've only got three - instills a certain measure of humility.
>

Don't feed that leering menace.

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Re: energy and mass The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-03-17 01:14 -0700
  Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-18 00:29 +1100
    Re: energy and mass The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-03-17 10:34 -0700
      Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-18 15:49 +1100
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            Re: energy and mass The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-03-18 11:07 -0700
              Re: energy and mass The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-03-18 11:47 -0700
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                Re: energy and mass Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-03-19 07:47 +0100
                Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-19 18:11 +1100
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                Re: energy and mass Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-03-19 09:31 +0100
                Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-19 20:38 +1100
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                Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-03-21 16:23 +1100
                Re: energy and mass Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-03-19 07:47 +0100
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