Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!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 14:27:53 -0800 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 110 Message-ID: <56578769.4DAF@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> <56578624.7777@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 1448576871 4396 45.49.183.72 (26 Nov 2015 22:27:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:27:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:279480 sci.physics:535731 sci.physics.relativity:370955 rec.arts.sf.written:427814 The Starmaker wrote: > > 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 > Scientific American eventually banned all new stories about Vulcan “discoveries” in its pages. i guess there is too muck kooks in the 'scientific community'...isn't there? wat is a kook to do? discover global warming? banned those too! ban all those kooks, and wat have you left? a bunch of turkeys... --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---