Response was slow as the scientific world struggled to
comprehend what Einstein had said in those two papers.
Thirty years later relativity was an overnight success,
drastically altering the physics landscape.
Right?
Well, it turns out you can never prove that a theory is correct.
And of course most scientists do.
Spring-And-Loop Theory is not so sure.
So how do scientists avoid endorsing the wrong stuff?
It all comes down to those initial a-s-s-umptions.
"Asbestos is the perfect insulating fiber -- strong, light, durable.
Nature made! Just dig it up, liberate them wondrous fibers from their columnar bundles, install and
PRESTO! Job done!"
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ah...right?
Well, let's find out.
The 800 pound assumption? No accelerations & no gravity.
The problem? Once you have a single proton in the Universe,
you have gravity-bent space. Add a second proton and you have
gravity-based attraction, and acceleration.
Luckily "general" relativity sounds like it might be a solution. Generally the general case is
the one intended for general use, right?
Incredibly, general relativity is layered
directly on top of special relativity.
General relativity is literally "special relativity + gravity".
Spring-And-Loop Theory calls this "useless + ah, it doesn't matter
because you'll still get something useless".
Just who, or what, does Spring-And-Loop Theory think it is, picking
on the greatest mind in history?
And who is to say that Spring-And-Loop Theory isn't filled with even
more flaws?
Today, Spring-And-Loop Theory is 20 papers into a rather surprising journey.
That all began with the quest to understand gravity.
Newton studied it half a millenium ago and F=ma is the four
character law we've used ever since.
Einstein merely refined this law, through relativation.
But underneath, F=ma was still there.
What can possibly be left to understand?
Richard Feynmann, possibly the funniest physicist not named Albert Einstein,
worked the gravity room equally hard and was equally unrequited.
The point? If special relativity and/or general relativity were
so great, why didn't they lead to more great stuff?
Still, every bruised shin and burnt finger helps.
In time children discover that mom was right all along.
Or they become an example to the other kids.
If they are good, then good will follow good.
And your building will rise.
So kids, make a note:
It turns out that staying with broken theories is what physicists
are exceptionally good at.
To understand why, one needs to consider what is at $take.
"Earn first, have pangs of conscience later" is not only a good idea,
it's the law.
To tEmP theorists anyway.
And besides "No one ever got fired for backing relativity!"
Dark matter may appear plentiful, but putrid is as putrid does.
Time for some "If only" air sanitizer.
"If only we could prove Supersymmetry."
"If only someone could unify physics."
If only Woody Allen would stop making movies.
Because there is no money in answers.
There is infinitely more money in lies.
Propaganda. Baloney. Misinformation. Hope. Faith. And wishing.
For that matter, I wish I was wrong about fluoridation.
If you think I am, please feel free to challenge my assumptions.
Thinking Spring-And-Loop Theory is wrong, because it is different,
is a hollow argument. Not that this gives pause to the trolls.
Knowing that Spring-And-Loop Theory is an ether theory doesn't
let you off the proof-hook either. Heck, even Einstein thought there
was an ether. He just couldn't decide what to call it.
Check out Ludwik Kostro's exquisitely detailed
"Einstein And The Ether"
for all the semantic variations.
Little more needs to be said about relativity.
You obviously can't move forward with it.
But what does matter is what you are feeling right now.
To do so you have to first be able to accept that most of
your steps down that wrong road have been futile.
Those valuable contacts, courses and contracts might not be.
At a minimum, everything you thought you knew will have
to be re-examined.
Fortunately for most, this proves to be an impossible task.
"Afflict the comfortable"
is not only our battle cry.
It is the only cry. Of a living theory, anyway.
...or 111 years ago.
Yes, relativity has been the worst thing since, well, some
other bad thing more than 111 years old. If you know a good example, please let me know.
Because prior to 1905, physics knew what it was doing.
Stuff didn't attract other stuff without a medium of exchange.
Something had to be doing something to make one end of a magnet
attract the other. And that something was etheric.
Light could no more propagate through "empty space"
Einstein had more words for the ether than anyone. In fact, Einstein
spent more time playing games with ether words than he did realizing that
what is needed are working models.
Others physicists say there are fields. In space. That has
no matter. So the fields must be energy. But field theorists don't
call that energy 'energy'. Thus earning the big field theorist bucks.
String theorists have their string. Only they don't because there is nothing
stringy about string theory. For all it has accomplished (and ever will)
it should be called Fantasy Theory, String Fiction or Not-even-stringy Theory.
Then there is gauge theory ::Eyeroll:: Does the word "gauge" sound right to you?
I hear 'gauge' and I think of a measuring device. Or the distance between
two railway tracks. Well don't trouble yourself. Turns out gauge theory is
field theory, only for those trying for the prodigious gauge theory bucks.
An exceedingly small group.
I mean, consider the credentials required.
Faster than a knee-jerk reaction!
More powerful than the LHC!
It's not a big turn-out for auditions...
Physics professor and author of a couple of coffee table books you've
probably glanced through: "Bankrupting Physics" & "The Higgs Fake".
I know of no one who sees more flaws, and sees them
more accurately and insightfully, than Professor Unzicker.
But then Sheilla Jones co-authored "Bankrupting Physics", so I'll give you two!
And I'll dispatch a rescue party.
No doubt a pack of wolves is at their door as we speak.
Well, yes. Sort of. But for the wrong reasons, and giving the wrong answers
when you need them most.
The Speed Of Light
Black Holes
Einstein's Equation
The Ether
Gravity
The font color used for the word "valuable" was
found here
Relativity
In 1905, Albert Einstein came out with special relativity.
In 1915, Albert Einstein came out with general relativity.
So relativity is El Supremo?
With such an overwhelmingly favorable response, it goes without saying
that special relativity and general relativity are completely correct.
A fact accepted in academic circles but ignored in media circuses.
But we KNOW relativity is correct. Yes?
Well, a better question to ask is "Do you believe in relativity?"
What is wanted is not the will to believe,
but the wish to find out,
which is its exact opposite.
- Bertrand Russell
"Assumption" starts with "A-s-s"
Few like to be wrong. Scientists even less so.
Four out of five doctors smoke...
...when paid to say so.
Ok, so assumptions can be trouble
But relativity, above all other theories, is built on the best assumptions.
Barely anyone is willing to question the entire system of assumptions
that has peaked with the introduction of dark energy.
- "Bankrupting Physics"
Not so special sauce
Special relativity is based on objects moving in straight lines at constant velocities.
So SR is out. What about GR?
Ok, in retrospect "special" relativity does sound kinda conditional.
Correct theories of physics are perfect things,
and a replacement theory
must be a new perfect thing, not an imperfection added onto an old perfect
thing. This is the essence of "revolution", the replacement of the
old with a new, not the adding of more crap to the old.
- Richard Feynman
But is it legal to bad mouth relativity?
Back up a bit!
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger,
more complex, and more violent. It takes
a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
From COASALT 7: The Atom:
"Spring-And-Loop Theory is irreducible, both in scale,
and in number of components. This doesn't, by itself, make
Spring-And-Loop Theory correct. But it does make it
the simplest possible theory of everything."
One refresher coming up!
Spring-And-Loop Theory is a new theory of physics.
Or it was in 2012.
Weird, right?
It might be a bit of a shock that gravity is still not understood.
It is perfectly sensible to question whether there is something
mistaken about our understanding of gravity rather than continuing
to search for a modern day equivalent of phlogiston.
- Alexander Unzicker, in 2013
Pretty much everything
Did you know that, after coming out with special relativity and
general relativity, Einstein spent the next thirty years
unsuccessfully trying to understand gravity? Or that he was never
successful at unifying the two forces (electromagnetism and gravity)
known at that time.
The standard model, because it excludes gravity,
is an incomplete account of reality. It is like
a theory of human nature that excludes sex.
- John Horgan
Karma crowns, or kills
Kids are slow to learn. Pre-frontal dev. is remarkably sluggish.
Be careful what you A-s-s for
The point is that you live and die by your assumptions.
However...
If you make poor assumptions, they will be the death of you.
The
Existing
Mainstream
Physics (tEmP) theories
are so far off track, they are more likely to produce spongiform encephalopathy
than insight.
So, now what?
Ok, so special relativity and general relativity are useless.
Then how come everyone continues to use them?
Selective hearing
Ever noticed how a child in the process of cookie-hijacking is
also hearing-challenged?
Even when the experts all agree,
they may well be mistaken.
- Bertrand Russell
Chronyism leads to hemorrhoids
Physicists today spend most of their time on the John.
Spritz a bit of...
"If only we could detect more particles."
Who are we kidding?
The last thing most physicists want is answers.
I wish...
I wish I was wrong about physics.
And microwave radiation.
Such a lonely word
Just be sure you make an honest appraisal.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas
which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will
accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say
this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it,
just as in mid-Victorian times it was 'not done' to mention
trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges
the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with
surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion
is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular
press or in the highbrow periodicals.
- George Orwell
So what's the point?
Special relativity is crippled by its base assumptions and
general relativity is built on top of special relativity.
No pain like brain pain
There are few things more difficult than admitting you've
been on the wrong track the whole time.
Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth.
Most dust themselves off and continue walking
as though nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
COASALT: Relativity's target market?
The few, the proud...the COASALTians!
The history of cosmology has every now and then confronted us with a
radical change in our world view. It would be utterly naive to think
that we finally got it right some 15 years ago.
- "Bankrupting Physics"
Boat-rockers, apply within
Physics has been in a completely useless state for 111 years.
King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia once teased his royal
astronomer: "Well, Argelander, anything new happening in the sky?"
"Does Your Majesty already know the old things?"
- Source
Truth ages the most gracefully
Newton, Maxwell, Preston, Poincare -- and many more -- all thought the same thing.
When it came to the ether.
than sound could
propagate without matter.
There is only one step from
the sublime to the ridiculous.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Today's cop outs
Physicists -- like Frank Wilczek [pdf] -- who are otherwise smart enough to know
there is an ether, choose not to call it the ether.
A generation of physicists has lost any sight of land.
- Alexander Unzicker
It is mostly unorthodox thinkers isolated
from the scientific community who have achieved major breakthroughs.
- Alexander Unzicker
There is really only one market
The only group of people "COASALT: Relativity" will benefit are those who actually
think for themselves.
Superman vs Higgsman
Able to leap tall mounds of dark matter at a single bound!
The Higgs doesn't take us any closer
to a unified theory than climbing a tree
would take me to the Moon.
- John Horgan
I'll give you one
Alexander Unzicker.
If you know a
Please let me know.
second third
ENDNOTE:
So, does ANY part of relativity work?
COASALT
Introduction
222 Answers
The Atom
Quantum World
Neutrino
Black Holes Revisited
The Comedy Of Science
et=mc3
Comparing Physics Theories
Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Einstein's Ether Talk
No Strong Force
The Electron
Relativity
Unification
Assumptions
Modeling
The Greatest Story
Physics Quotes & Thoughts
Big Bang
Dark Matter/Dark Energy
Dogma
Forget The Fields
Math Sucks
Particle Physics
Peer Review
Standard Model
Star Gazing
String Theory
tEmP Theories/Theorists
The Control System
Trolls
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