[While trying to explain why light has velocity]
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"My mathematics is correct, there is an error in Einstein's."
"Believe whatever you want to believe. Mathematics does not lie. My mathematics is correct, there is an error in Einstein's."
Hubris ahoy!highly theoretical. They were not truly accepted as factual until their predictions had been tested and supported by evidence numerous times.
If you've got something to prove here, the only way you'll prove it is by sending it to the journals, getting it accepted and published, and then getting your ideas tested and supported by evidence. Ranting online means nothing. Put up or shut up.
~David D.G.
I'd call this a troll, except that there are actually people whose hobby is trying to disprove Einstein, and occasionally think they've succeeded. I wouldn't think they were posting on alt.abortion, though.
Mathematics might not lie, but incompetent mathematicians are capable of making up all kinds of crazy things. Slapping down a bunch of numbers, and declaring yourself a genius isn't proof in any field.
So we consider the problem as Einstein set it up, a description of
Which argument comes down to Einstein said "c = constant in all non-accelerated frames of reference" and rbwinn3 said "no it isn't."
I'd wager that your "mathematics" is not correct. Einstein's field equation has passed rigorous testing and has not failed with the exception of what lies beyond the event horizon of a singularity.
"If x is negative w= -c or -186,000 miles per second, not c as
You're an idiot. Not only is this meaningless, but if:
I'm reading his proof, and he seems to think that because Einstein used "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably (as most people did in the 30s or so), then that leaves the door wide open to him - and not Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, Ed Witten, etc. - to completely blow the lid off general relativity. He doesn't discuss the Ricci curvature tensor, Riemannian manifolds, or the equivalence principle. Because of a difference in vocabulary, the entire theory is wrong.
BRAVO.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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