Posted on 11/18/2014 5:34:10 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
'Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong' In the late 1800s, Albert A. Michelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in the sciences, devised an experiment to prove the Earth is moving through space, through a medium for bearing light called the “aether.”
If he could show that light was slowed down by being fired into an aether headwind, like a swimmer swimming against a stream, Michelson reasoned, it would prove the Earth’s motion through space.
But the experiment didn’t work the way he expected. In fact, it proved the opposite.
The world of science was baffled. Was the Earth not moving?
Eventually, however, another Albert, with the last name of Einstein, developed a theory called special relativity to explain Michelson’s results.
It wouldn’t be the last time, a startling new documentary called “The Principle” suggests, that scientists had to scramble to make their theories about space fit observable facts and experiments that didn’t jive with their prevalent understandings.
Increasingly, bizarre and unproven theories such as the mysterious “dark matter,” “dark energy,” “multiverses” and the creation of “everything from nothing,” the moviemakers claim, have been thought up to try to make the hard data fit with an underlying assumption science has accepted since the 16th century.
But what if instead of dreaming up wild theories to explain away inconsistencies, the moviemakers suggest, scientists allowed the facts to challenge the underlying assumption itself? What if everything science believes about space … is wrong?
“The Principle,” which is opening now in select cities around the U.S., boldly challenges the widely accepted Copernican Principle, named after Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. He famously argued Earth revolves around the sun and went further to suggest Earth is in no central or favored place in the universe.
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Sort of like “wheels within wheels.” The simplest explanation that explains the observations is probably the correct one.
Ohhhh-kayyyy
Lutheran astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer determined in 1676 that the speed of light was finite, not instantaneous, based on the delay in seeing a moon of Jupiter from Earth after the earth had moved in its orbit to the other side of the sun.
In 1838, another Lutheran astronomer and mathematician, Friedrich Bessel, was the first to measure the distance to a star using the parallax method, which depends on the earth moving in an orbit around the sun (rather than the sun moving around a fixed earth).
I took a physics class as an undergrad, one of the tests a question was simply: “Calculate the weight of the moon”
OK.
Land a probe on a comet.
Feel free to use any assumptions you like regarding the structure of the universe.
Zero.
The mass, however, is another story.
I thought time and space revolved around Obama?
Correct I meant to say mass not weight. I got the right answer....
Ohhhh-kayyyy
When I was in fifth grade (1965), I was riding my bike, contemplating life, the universe and everything and sudenly I stopped and asked: What if none of this is real, even the people, and only I am real? What if it is all just an insertion into my consciousness that exists on some other plane?
And decades later we have “The Matrix”. :-P
Fact is, there is so little actual matter making up the universe that it is made out of, essentially, nothing. We only perceive it to be something.
Seriously.
Are you sure your physics question really wasn’t “Calculate the *mass* of the Moon?”
Yes it was mass and it was 30 years ago.
God’s creation is very real, and we are all in it both physically as well as spiritually.
Is it even possible to calculate the mass of kim kardashian’s “mass”?
I thought it was revealed in 1986 when Maradona scored against England.
The weight of the Moon is the gravitational force exerted on it by some other object. For the sake of simplicity in interpreting the question, I’ll ‘assume’ that the other object is Earth. That gravitational force is obviously NOT zero.
God’s creation is very real, and we are all in it both physically as well as spiritually.
But he gave us biological machines (called the natural man) to occupy while we are here. It is designed to perceive this world very much as “something”.
IOW, I’m not denying God. Rather, I’m applauding His creativity!
Never assume. That wasn’t part of the question. My reference point could be the Horsehead Nebula.
You can assume the orbit of the moon is perfect and the radius of the orbit is 238,857 miles cg to cg.
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