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Old 12.06.2007, 08:07 PM   #47
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The main inference is that theories are always being redefined as more information is explored over time. That is, except for relativity theory.
I wanted to squeeze in that Einstein reigns, that's all.
I really don't give a damn about Sapir-Whorf or Chomsky, you know, since they are largely masturbatory.

I've written on other occasions that I'm not a huge Chomsky enthusiast (even though he's not all bad or anything).

I'm all about the Einstein and Wittgenstein though.

Again, sorry it was so very offensive to you.

Please read the following, it's important:

Einstein proved right on gravity
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2639043.stm





 

It all adds up: Albert Einstein would be pleased





 
By Dr David Whitehouse

BBC News Online science editor





 
The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time, revealing that it does indeed travel at the speed of light.


It means that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed yet another test with flying colours.
The measurement was made by Ed Fomalont of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Sergei Kopeikin of the University of Missouri, in Columbia, both US.
Writing in New Scientist magazine, they say: "We became the first two people to know the speed of gravity, one of the fundamental constants of nature."
Higher dimensions
Isaac Newton believed the influence of gravity was instantaneous. Later, Albert Einstein assumed it travelled at the speed of light and built his 1915 General Theory of Relativity around that assumption.
If gravity travelled at the speed of light it would mean that if the Sun suddenly vanished from the Solar System, the Earth would remain in orbit for about eight minutes - the time taken for light to travel from the star to our planet. Then, in the absence of gravity, Earth would move off in a straight line.
Modern researchers say that knowing the speed of gravity is important in the study of branches of cosmology where the Universe has more spatial dimensions than the usual three.
Some of those theories suggest that gravity could take a short cut through higher dimensions and so appear to travel faster than the speed of light.
Jupiter's help
To measure gravity's velocity, Kopeikin determined that it could be determined with the help of the planet Jupiter, if its mass and velocity were known.
The perfect opportunity arose in September 2002, when Jupiter passed in front of a quasar - a distant, very active galaxy - that emits radio waves.
Fomalont and Kopeikin combined observations from a series of radio telescopes to measure the apparent change in the quasar's position as the gravitational field of Jupiter bent the passing radio waves.

From the observations the researchers determined that that gravity does indeed move at the same speed as light.

The results of the study have been presented to this weeks meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle.

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Einstein is rock-solid, baby. Quantum Electrodynamics is really solid, after all, it's based in relativity. Quantum Mechanics is far from being solid, but not complete bullshit. String theory, on the other hand, is gobbledegook.
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