Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Variable Time and the Variable Speed of Light Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:37:57 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 80 Message-ID: <5B84EDC5.24F0@ix.netcom.com> References: <6fceaded-718d-4c9b-ba23-577dd41380ec@googlegroups.com> <43cf91f6-44bc-4e68-a697-8d8d554d0470@googlegroups.com> <5B7A789A.3AA4@ix.netcom.com> <734f6110-0cb4-4494-8c29-f45e17a78b87@googlegroups.com> <5B7BB02A.8EC@ix.netcom.com> <5B7CD98B.1378@ix.netcom.com> <5B824B06.14FA@ix.netcom.com> <5B8391C8.1F09@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: X9ItFNC7Zcz4l6MobL/YRA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 180827-6, 08/27/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:469461 The Starmaker wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > > > > Ed Lake wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 3:15:27 AM UTC-5, The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > > Ed Lake wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 11:48:17 AM UTC-5, Ed Lake wrote: > > > > > > > > Hey guys, I'm baaaack. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just put a new paper on vixra.org. It is titled "Variable Time and the > > > > > > > > Variable Speed of Light." Here is the link: http://vixra.org/pdf/1607.0289v6.pdf > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And here is the opening paragraph: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Since the facts in that paragraph are undeniable, I assume everyone here fully agrees with it. Nevertheless, I'd be interested in your thoughts. :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > While doing some research this morning, I realized that many of my arguments were previously stated by Cal-Tech's Carver Mead. https://en.wikipedi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Example: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with mathematics--it's the language we use to express the precise relations of physical law. But there is an increasing tendency to mistake the language for the physics itself. Once we lose the conceptual foundations, the whole thing becomes a shell game." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Source: http://worrydream.com/refs/Mead%20-%20American%20Spectator%20Interview.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here's another article about Carver Mead: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/20/carver_mead_on_the_future_of_science/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It says, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Einstein, of course, was mightily influenced by what the ex–patent clerk called Mach's Principle, which Mead explained as the proposition that "the inertia of every element of matter is due to its interaction with all the other elements of matter in the universe." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "We haven't fully followed that investigative road, Mead said. "Instead what we've done is we've treated isolated objects as if all their attributes were just given us, and [we] haven't asked where they came from," he said. "Things like the inertia of an object, the rest energy of an object, the velocity of light — all those things. We have a list of fundamental constants that we're not allowed to ask where they come from." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "If we want to get that stalled 100-year-old revolution unstuck, Mead said, we've got to ask – and discover – where those constants come from, and not just believe in them as handed down by academics and buried in mountains of math. We need to discover their basis in the interactions and interrelationships of all matter in the universe." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The truth is...Albert Einstein has no idea what the speed of light is. > > > > Can you imagine the mind of Einstein...in 1905 when he wrote relativity he didn't know what galaxies were... > > and in 1905 Einstein probably thought the age of the earth was around 40 millions years old... > > what was really inside Einstein's mind with all those...wrong numbers in his head? > > and he didn't know what the speed of light was either. > > Here's a question: What size bomb was Einstein thinking of when he wrote this... > > "A single bomb of this > > type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy > > the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory." > > https://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein/#first > > I guess it was bigger than he thought... or as the 'scientific community' puts it...'it was bigger than thought'. You have to ask yourself a question...in 1905, what is it that Einstein 'didn't' know? He probably didn't even know what ...Gravity was. (probably spent the next ten years tryin to figure it out) (you spend ten years at anything and you become a genuis at it)