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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 15:14 +1100
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On 19/03/2026 5:47 am, The Starmaker wrote:
> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>> then you take bets in the bathroom, will she live or die?
>>
>> I can bet on that today, can I? Kalshi.
>>
>> no more bathroom bets.
>>
>> I bet she dies...I seen the engineers...too weak.
>>
>> You know, no one ever told the teacher what were the odds...
>  
> Let's call it what it is, the engineers are guilty of negligent MURDER.

You've clearly seen "The China Syndrome".

It's a fantasy.The engineers are never let close enough to the action to 
be in a position to intervene, or in the Challenger case, to save 
anybody's life.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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