Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Evidence suggestive of relativity. Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:03:15 -0700 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <651F6AE3.FED@ix.netcom.com> References: <01685cb6-1684-4c4a-b605-6032651d843cn@googlegroups.com> <651F591E.2A69@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="1147366"; posting-host="nLYg9UBeoMWa070gP9wQcw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:1fxSF8zIfCZRoiG/Q6dBKmmGZHT/ufO+PAEktII5u5s= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 231005-4, 10/05/2023), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:622541 The Starmaker wrote: > > Paul Alsing wrote: > > > > On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:29:09 PM UTC-7, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote: > > > I like criticizing reincarnation claims. > > > Even scientists studying such claims only claim they have, at best: > > > "evidence suggestive of reincarnation." > > > > What evidence would that be, exactly? > > > > > I recommend relativists adopt the same policy. > > > > > > List of evidence suggestive of relativity: > > > > > > 1. Of time travel. > > > 2. Of a speed limit for everything, electromagnetic or not, of C, including relative motion involving the observer. > > > 3. Of gravity bending the path of photons even though they have no mass. > > > 4. Of singularities, a mathematical fiction actually existing. > > > 5. Of gravity, moving the speed of light without causing angular momentum to throw off all orbital dynamics completely instead of fine-tuning them. > > > 6. Of Newtonian gravitational redshift instead of twice Newtonian as in bending of light. > > > 7. Of length contraction. > > > 8. Of the reification of space and curving of it. > > > 9. Of a mass-velocity relationship. > > > 10. > > > > > > -Trying to keep an open mind to relativity. > > > > Having an open mind is a fine idea... just not so open that your brains fall out! > > > > Yes, there is evidence in support of all those points, so my question for you is... what evidence do *you* have that any of them are incorrect? > > > > Be specific. > > > > \Paul the Heckler, who only heckles those who absolutely do not know what they do not know. > > No, there is NO evidence in support of all those points, so my question for you is... what evidence do *you* have that any of them are correct? > > Start with the first one if you dare: > > 1. Of time travel. > > (but, everybody already knows you don't dare because you are chicken) > (correction: I forgot to add the word NO.) No, there is NO evidence in support of all those points, so my question for you is... what evidence do *you* have that any of them are correct? Start with the first one if you dare: 1. Of time travel. (but, everybody already knows you don't dare because you are chicken) -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.