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originally posted by: Xango
Here's my two cents:
"Bob Lazar" is one of those subjects that has become impossible to prove, even if he is right.
If you try to, it always comes down to "but all he says had already been said in science fiction before him." As if science fiction was unable to actually 'predict' the future in some sense.
originally posted by: Xango
Here's my two cents:
"Bob Lazar" is one of those subjects that has become impossible to prove, even if he is right.
If you try to, it always comes down to "but all he says had already been said in science fiction before him." As if science fiction was unable to actually 'predict' the future in some sense.
I imagine that if no one knew that men have been to the Moon (ie.: if all moon missions were secret), and some whistle blower came out and tried to tell everyone that men have actually been to the moon, many would say that was not true, because going to the moon was from a 1902 movie called "A Trip to the Moon".
Together with a young collaborator, I arrived at the interesting result that gravitational waves do not exist, though they had been assumed a certainty to the first approximation. This shows that the nonlinear field equations can show us more, or rather limit us more, than we have believed up till now
Interestingly, Einstein himself was a prominent doubter. In 1936, twenty years after he introduced the concept, the great physicist took another look at his math and came to a surprising conclusion.
Einstein submitted his change of heart in a paper to the Physical Review Letters titled “Do gravitational waves exist?” The reviewer soon poked holes in the math, showing how Einstein’s coordinate system lacked imagination when dealing with pesky singularities.
I Einstein believed that he and Rosen had established that their new argument showed that the prediction of gravitational radiation was a mathematical artifact of the linear approximation he had employed in 1916. Einstein believed these plane waves would gravitationally collapse into points; he had long hoped something like this would explain quantum mechanical wave-particle duality.
Tesla published a prepared statement on his 81st birthday (July 10, 1937) critiquing Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. The following is a portion of that statement:
"... Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curving of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies, and producing the opposite effects, straightening out the curves. Since action and reaction are coexistent, it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible - But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena."
"My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment."
"... Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curving of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies, and producing the opposite effects, straightening out the curves.
There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment."
Oh dear, so Bob turned out to be correct in his assertion
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: A51Watcher
Oh dear, so Bob turned out to be correct in his assertion
No. Bob did not turn out to be correct. It has not been shown that gravity is a wave.
The thing is, this thread is a claim that the measurement of gravity waves somehow validates Lazar's claims. It doesn't.
originally posted by: MysterX
a reply to: moebius
No, he wasn't wrong...he was right and has been vindicated by science...unless you believe just writing something, anything makes it become fact, there's no escaping this fact, however unfortunate it may be for those who have spent decades waving pitchforks at the merest mention of his name.