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Re: energy and mass

From Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, sci.electronics.design, sci.math
Subject Re: energy and mass
Date 2026-03-19 15:07 +1100
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On 19/03/2026 5:07 am, The Starmaker wrote:
> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>
>> On 18/03/2026 6:27 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
>>> 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+teleporta
>>>>
>>>> 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.
> 
>  From slow +? man, a nickname for a sluggish person.

Always corrupted into snowman.

> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sloman
>>> Now I understand why teachers blow up in rocketships...the engineers
>>> don't understand physics.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
> 
>> The engineers has warned management, "but neither NASA nor the SRB
>> manufacturer Morton Thiokol had addressed this known defect. NASA
>> managers also disregarded engineers' warnings about the dangers of
>> launching in low temperatures and did not report these technical
>> concerns to their superiors."
>>
>> It was a management screw up. The engineers had done their jobs and
>> warned management, but management ignored them. It happens a lot.
> 
> "It happens a lot."???? You mean, you look the other way.

I was never management, though I got close. I later found out that my 
refusal to waste time on pointless paper-shuffling counted against me.

> then you take bets in the bathroom, will she live or die?

It doesn't work like that. The managers worry about more important stuff 
- pointless paper-shuffling.

> I can bet on that today, can I? Kalshi.

You can bet on anything you like. It's a character defect, but not yet a 
crime.

> no more bathroom bets.
> 
> I bet she dies...I seen the engineers...too weak.

That's built into the system. Engineers - like British scientists -have 
to be on tap rather than on top.

> You know, no one ever told the teacher what were the odds...

They were well known. Going into space has always been a risky business, 
but you do get a lot of publicity, which strikes as even stronger 
demotivator.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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