UncleAl Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 I personally find it quite difficult to comprehend why the physics community puts such absolute faith in the validity of Einstein's theory of relativity. If you disagree with an empirically validated prediction of General Relativity, you are wrong. Experimental Basis of Special Relativity Experimental constraints on Special Relativity The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment[gr-qc/0311039] 35 Years of Testing Relativistic Gravity: Where do we go from here? Experimental constraints on General Relativity Relativity in the Global Positioning System Relativistic effects on orbital clocks [gr-qc/9909014] Kinetic Energy and the Equivalence PrincipleAmer. J. Phys. 71 770 (2003)Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 121101 (2004)Nature 425 374-376 (2003). The Confrontation between General Relativity and ExperimentSection 3.4.1, Figure 5 falling light GPS and [astro-ph/0609417] Tests of general relativity from timing the double pulsar http://www.oakland.edu/physics/mog29/mog29.pdf Deeply relativistic neutron star binary PSR J0737-3039A/B 16.8995 deg/yr periastron advance You are wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnssiH Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Anssi, you know, if you weren't here I would be very tempted to just walk away from this... Looking at some of the responses, I am not surprised... But I hope you won't walk away. And I wish someone better versed in math (and someone with some time in their hands) was here to help also :I ...I have suspicions that, consistent with most all professionals I have ever talked to, their real interest is finding something they can point to which which makes the need to examine things more carefully seem to be a waste of time. My god you are right; UncleAl's post is just almost too appropriate to this comment. Well maybe he is not a professional but, what can I say... I actually had to look at what was he quoting exactly, and it was the fifth sentence of the OP. Fifth! :eek: I'm speechless :( To the benefit of anyone else skimming this thread; no one is disagreeing with any experiments. Please make sure you have at least some idea about the topic before you create unnecessary noise. -Anssi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Putnam Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 To the benefit of anyone else skimming this thread; no one is disagreeing with any experiments. Please make sure you have at least some idea about the topic before you create unnecessary noise. -Anssi It is clear to me that the above is true. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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