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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 18:24 +1100
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On 19/03/2026 5:07 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>
>> 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+telepor
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
> 
> 
> The internal reality
> 
> After the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Rogers Commission
> uncovered a huge gap:
> 
>      NASA management often cited failure odds around 1 in 100,000
> (extremely optimistic)
> 
>      Engineers and some contractors believed the real risk could be
> closer to 1 in 100 or even worse
> 
> That enormous mismatch shows that even within NASA, there wasn’t a
> single honest, agreed-upon number — so it certainly wasn’t clearly
> communicated to McAuliffe.

McAuliffe could count. NASA had killed a number of astronauts over the 
years.

> She wasn’t told specific odds — and if she had been told the most
> realistic internal estimates, it might have sounded very different from
> the "safe routine flight" image the Shuttle program projected at the
> time.
>  
> That teacher was murdered. NASA needed the money...

Don't be silly. They sincerely didn't want her dead, but bureaucracies 
put a lot more emphasis on meeting schedules than they do on avoiding 
disasters

> But, it's okay to look the other way...

It most certainly isn't

> Every time they send a rocket up...everybody looks the other way...they
> got mouths to feed.

Far from it. But when the whole organisation is focussed on staging 
impressive events and getting them to happen when promised, concerns 
about safety get a lower priority.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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