Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!border1.nntp.hkg.giganews.com!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Where is the center of the universe? Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 14:22:28 -0800 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 103 Message-ID: <56578624.7777@ix.netcom.com> References: <54D7D8B6.20A9@ix.netcom.com> <1929728.aQylc7a8uv@PointedEars.de> <56554B77.DB7@ix.netcom.com> <2133158.n7sHMRbLUT@PointedEars.de> <5655F43B.1D21@ix.netcom.com> <3600492.jtiUJ5quDi@PointedEars.de> <56569A73.2E27@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1448576545 3969 45.49.183.72 (26 Nov 2015 22:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:22:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:279479 sci.physics:535729 sci.physics.relativity:370954 rec.arts.sf.written:427813 The Starmaker wrote: > > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > > > > The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > > >> The Starmaker amok-crossposted: > > >> > And Einstein already proved there is no PointedEars. > > >> In your dreams. > > > > > > From what I know... > > > It is written, that the people with PointedEars > > > are from the planet Vulcan. > > > > That would be _pointed ears_, and they could as well be from Barradas â…¢, > > Romulus, and a number of other Vulcan/Romulan/Debrune colonies ;-) > > > > > Einstein proved that the planet Vulcan doesn't exist. > > > > No, he did not. He could not. The fact aside that Einstein has concerned > > himself with far more important things at the time, like world peace and a > > unified theory without quantum mechanics, Star Trek and the idea of the > > planet Vulcan (1964) was not even conceived when Einstein lived (1879–1955). > > > > > That means there is no PointedEars. > > > > Ex falso quodlibet. > > > > PointedEars > > -- > > Q: What happens when electrons lose their energy? > > A: They get Bohr'ed. > > > > (from: WolframAlpha) > > For a guy with PointedEars, you don't know much about your > planet...Vulcan: > > "Einstein, Destroyer of Worlds" > > Einstein went one better. With his pen he destroyed a planet, Vulcan, > and simultaneously “reimagined the cosmos.” > > Although general relativity encompasses the entire universe, Einstein in > 1915 decided to highlight its effects on the planet Mercury for a few > reasons, Mr. Levenson notes. General relativity predicts that massive > objects warp the space around them. The larger the object, the more > warping that occurs. And Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, would > therefore feel the effects of general relativity far more than other > planets. > > Equally important, Mr. Levenson writes, “Einstein had a perfectly fine > grasp of . . . intellectual combat,” and knew he needed to make a splash > to win people’s attention. Solving the mystery of Mercury’s > orbit—something Newton’s revered theory couldn’t do—would produce an > intellectual tsunami. > > So Einstein sat down to calculate, and watched as the correct orbit > popped right out of his equations—like “magic,” he said. Far from > playing it cool, Einstein felt his heart shudder at the sight, and said > that something “snapped” inside him. A friend later speculated that > resolving Mercury’s orbit was the most intense emotional experience of > Einstein’s scientific life, maybe even his entire life. As Mr. Levenson > writes, “It had been said of Le Verrier that he discovered a planet > [Neptune] at the tip of his pen.” Einstein went one better. With his pen > he destroyed a planet, Vulcan, and simultaneously “reimagined the > cosmos.” > > Throughout the book, Mr. Levenson seems intent on using Vulcan to make > grand pronouncements about science and the human condition. The planet > exposes “the human capacity to both discover and self-deceive.” It > provides “an object lesson in how easy it is to see what ought to be > rather than what is.” And so on. More aptly, he uses Vulcan to draw > several thought-provoking parallels to modern science. Just like with > Vulcan, physicists spent decades talking about the Higgs boson based on > the seeming “necessity” of it—the fact that modern theories said these > bosons must exist, even if no one had ever seen them. The Higgs > eventually proved real, but what about superstrings or cosmic inflation > or gravitational waves? We might not be as far removed from the foibles > of Vulcan-hunters as we think. And when he delivered a talk detailing his calculations at the Prussian Academy of Sciences on Nov. 18, 1915 in Berlin, his “pen destroyed Vulcan THE HUNT FOR VULCAN: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe By Thomas Levenson How Albert Einstein Destroyed The Planet...Vulcan. He also almost destroyed the earth: http://pw1.netcom.com/~starmaker/Albert_Einstein/Albert_Einstein_The-Man-Who-Built-The-Atomic-Bomb.html --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---