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Space does bend: [snip].
Originally posted by mnemeth1
Originally posted by xxshadowfaxx
reply to post by mnemeth1
You know, It doesn't matter if Einstien was right or wrong. He was a brilliant man.
How about showing him a little bit of respect?
He's a retard that thought space could bend and led us down the wrong path of science for nearly a century.
He's the worst human being to ever walk the face of the earth.
A lot of other people besides the OP don't like Einstein:
Originally posted by budaruskie
Originally posted by mnemeth1
He's a retard that thought space could bend and led us down the wrong path of science for nearly a century.
He's the worst human being to ever walk the face of the earth.
Me no understand:
It's not just one person, it's an epidemic.
A burgeoning underground of 'dissident' scientists and self-described experts publish their theories in newsletters and blogs on the Net, exchanging ideas in a great battle against 'the temple of relativity'. According to these critics, relativity is not only wrong, it's an affront to common sense, and its creator, Albert Einstein, was no less than a cheat.
A quick glance at anti-relativity proponents and their publications reveals a plethora of alternative theories about how the universe really works – very few of them in agreement with each other. But despite their many differences, common themes among these self-described iconoclasts do emerge: resentment of academic 'elites', suspicion of the entire peer-review process in mainstream scientific journals and a deep-seated paranoia about the extent of government involvement in scientific projects.
"there has just begun a new series of conferences, held by anti-relativity cranks, called 'Crisis in Cosmology'. I think the first one was held in Spain and they're planning another. It looks exactly like a legitimate scientific conference, with the difference that everyone delivering a talk there is insane."
The conference planners sent out invitations to Gaensler and hundreds of other physicists. "Before registering," he says, "you had to fill out this 10-point, bulleted manifesto, agreeing to all sorts of propositions from the start. For example, 'I do not accept that the universe is expanding', and so on, the kind of thing you would never see at a real scientific conference. It was hilarious."
There are enough problems with the standard model that I'm sure many physicists would LOVE to have a better model. The problem is, none of the alternatives are better.
It doesn't seem to make any difference to point out to anti-relativists that, second to quantum mechanics, relativity is the most tested theory on the books.
And the testing hasn't stopped. None of the physicists I spoke to pretend that relativity is somehow sacrosanct, as dissenters typically complain.
Originally posted by lokiliesmith
hahaha listen in at 00:48 sec mark... he says most of his work is in photovoltaics and "wind turbans"...
Originally posted by PuterMan
I am not in a position to argue with you about the bending of 'space', but gravitational lensing sounds to me like bending light, not space. Is that the same thing?
The bending of light is a consequence of the curved space-time.
Spacetime around a massive object (such as a galaxy cluster or a black hole) is curved, and as a result light rays from a background source (such as a galaxy) propagating through spacetime are bent.
Since hyydereinas haven't been confirmed by the larger scientific community, they do seem kind of made-up.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
There's nothing in Mills theory that is made up, and I think that is what bothers the statist liars the most.
Perhaps it is a logical fallacy, I'll grant you that. But I suspect the fact that nobody will come forward to replicate the result has something to do with the story of the boy who cried "wolf"! All the past replication efforts have failed for the last 20 years so they probably just don't believe him anymore. So even if he's actually right this time, nobody will pay any attention until the reactors go commercial.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
It is a logical fallacy to conclude that he is wrong when the experiments say he is right, simply because the larger scientific community refuses to accept the truth.
Originally posted by 46ACE
Space does bend: [snip].
It was proven way back in 1919 by precisely documenting gravitational bending of starlight.during a solar eclipse; stars could be seen around the rim, of the eclipsed solar disk out of their real position by a precise amount predicted by Albert Einstein. The suns gravity distorted space and the light rays of stars behind the sun were bent.
Examples of "gravitational lensing" are found by astronomers using hubble and the VLA quite frequently today.
No that's an atmospheric effect. There's no atmosphere in space. There's an atmosphere around the earth, but it's the same atmosphere we look through to observe the stars near the sun whether there's a solar eclipse or no solar eclipse. Therefore it wasn't an atmospheric effect in 1919 when the gravitational bending of light was first confirmed.
Originally posted by littlebunny
Move just far enough away that you can barely make out the light shinning from the holes within the box. Now adjust your view until you can see you are looking at the lighted holes through the convection. You have just successfully bent space and time.
Originally posted by littlebunny
Then at five feet away place a burning oil/kerosene lamp in from of the box with the lamp inside and turned on. Now place an object in front of the oil lamp that obstructs your view of the flame but not the convection emanating from the lamp. Move just far enough away that you can barely make out the light shinning from the holes within the box. Now adjust your view until you can see you are looking at the lighted holes through the convection. You have just successfully bent space and time...
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Besides, how do you explain the stretched out shape of these lights if you don't believe that gravity bends light?
• Abell 3376 emits massive amounts of x-rays in a halo estimated thermally to be at over 60 million degrees Kelvin. There are no plausible explanations for this outrageous amount of heat and xray emission that encompasses the entire galaxy cluster using standard shock and gravity theory. The so-called shock "injection problem" in proposed solutions to these observations is ignored. Collisional heating of neutral gas can not generate 60 million degree temperatures. Mechanisms for the creation and maintenance of the required magnetic fields and the associated plasma have not been addressed. The Sun doesn’t even get that hot. That’s over 20 times hotter than the hottest point of the solar corona and over 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. The electric model of galaxy formation offers an obvious solution to this problem as well as the unaccounted for magnetic fields.
Quasar Q2237 “The Einstein Cross” – this quasar directly refutes the notion of gravitational lensing. This quasar is supposedly ONE quasar being lensed into FOUR images. The individual quasars are observed to change in brightness independently. They are not oblong in shape. They are are visibly connected by plasma to the galactic core. They are observed to change position. All of these observations are in direct contradiction to gravitational lens theory. The proposal that this is one quasar being lensed into four images is preposterous! The notion that gravitational micro-lenses are the cause of this effect are at such extreme odds that it is next to impossible for them to properly account for the variations observed over time. Recent papers on lensing read like a science fiction novel with a nearly infinite number of hypothetical postulates propping up the theory.
In conjunction with this argument:
If you agree that gravitational lensing is caused by black holes, it follows that you agree that all super-massive black holes must exhibit gravitational lenses;
If you agree that all super-massive black holes must exhibit gravitational lensing, then explain why we don’t see any lensing effects at the center of the Milky Way. High mass objects bend light according to GR as was supposedly demonstrated in the 1919 eclipse paper here, given that, the measurement arm excuse seems to fly in the face of standing theory. In fact, gravitational lensing theory has so many contradicting theories in support of it, one can not find a single standard view of lensing to even refute. I could attempt to refute one model, only to face conflicting data from another model, and so forth – of course none of the models are backed up by any laboratory experimentation.
Further, if we look strictly at the observational evidence in support of lensing, excluding red shifts, we find that halo structures are all that’s left to explain. If the assumption is made that red shift is caused by some other property beside expanding space, all one needs to do is explain the observed halo effects and light refraction. There exists in our own solar system such a massive halo effect that is not caused by gravitational lensing. The Phoebe ring of Saturn is a great example of a non-gravitational lensing halo. Also on the galactic scale, the Abell 3376 galaxy cluster exhibits a ring system that is not due to “gravitational lensing" as do numerous other galaxies and galaxy clusters such as Hoag's object. Ring formations are a common occurrence in space, the majority of which are totally unrelated to any proposed "lensing."
Further, given that we know its possible to bend light here on earth without gravity, it stands to reason that there is probably some real property of plasma acting in space that can account for what is observed. Magneto-optical effects such as self-focusing have not been thoroughly reviewed as a possible cause of the observed visual distortions around the Sun. Given the electric model, it seems such effects could possibly account for the observed refraction of light.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
reply to post by mnemeth1
This thread seems to follow same sad pattern as other threads you author:
XYZ (anything, really) ===> Einstein is a moron ===> Einstein cross is composed of separate quasars connected by plasma.
Phew.
lastro.epfl.ch...
Look at the spectra, if you care. It's the same quasar.
Originally posted by littlebunny
reply to post by Arbitrageur
there is to an atmosphere in space, to even suggest there's not is lunacy... Our planet exists smack dab in the middle of a giant convection source called the sun that produces solar winds all day long… and our solar system is loaded with ice crystals. Everyone knows this... There must also be water in half frozen half liquid state... it must exist or what the hell is left by Comets, and how did they get so frozen? I realize the universe has to be a giant empty void for an expanding universe and for the theories that say space bends to be true... But its simply impossible... The universe is loaded with physical matter on/in the atomic and sub atomic levels... Either the big bang happened or it didn't... science cannot continue to have it both ways. No atmosphere... What nonsense!!!
I don't mean to be rude, I'm not blaming you... Its just madness that that nonsense is still being taught in schools.
---Charles Marcelloedit on 9-12-2010 by littlebunny because: (no reason given)