One thing I like about the String Theory ping list is, the volume is typically so low that I can ping more or less duplicate topics with impunity. ;')
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Posted on 08/22/2009 10:05:51 PM PDT by neverdem
“Violent yet rare events, such as a supernova explosion or the collision of two black holes, should make the biggest and most detectable waves.”
Unless your presuppositions regarding such objects/events are completely false...
Astro-Space Pings
True enough, if you accept an unproven hypothesis, it’s tough to explain when things don’t work out.
Have any of Einstein’s equations or theories proven to be wrong?
It’s the gravity Tsunami I’m worried about, those
things are too big to surf! Well, maybe not for
the Silver Surfer...
I think the Democrat party is selling them now that Obama has lost his gravitas.
Yes, all of them when applied to subatomic particles. Einstein's theory of relativity applies to very large objects like solar systems and objects traveling near the speed of light. In those cases his theories give accurate results when compared to the measurements. But when applied to subatomic particles his theories do not match the measured results. That is where quantum mechanics come in. Quantum mechanics describes subatomic particles accurately.
Einstein's theory of relative and quantum mechanics contradict each other. They can't both be true, and both are probably false. So the hunt is on for the Theory of Everything (T.O.E.) that will describe both objects moving near the speed of light and subatomic particles. One of the candidates is super string theory. This is strictly theoretical since the proposed strings are too small to detect with instruments. One of the things it predicts is the graviton, a particle of gravity. But the graviton has not shown up yet.
The graviton won’t show up. String theories are garbage science IMO. Even it’s proponents concede that to even begin getting useful results they need to fudge in an extra dimension, M-theory. 11 dimensions to describe a three dimensional, inverse square, phenomenon. The two competing theories currently used work extremely well in there respective fields. The concept and model of gravity is wrong.
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Try doing google searches on "Dayton Miller"...
Yup.
Michelson-Morley found a drift, but it was within the margin of error of the experiment, so it was discounted.
What always gets me is that to validate Einstein, they say that there was no drift, but then they come back and say that to validate Einstein, we need gravity waves, which is to say instead of the object accelerating in space, we have space somehow accelerating past the object.
Unfortunately the article seems to miss that obvious point. The most important aspect of the failure to detect gravity waves is that is brings into at least some doubt the validity of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. That is a very big deal and, IMHO, a source of great embarrassment to the physics community.
Plenty of hard evidence for both.
cosmological constant
“God does not play dice.”
Y’know, I thought I heard somethin’ in the other room...
‘Non-discovery’ of space-time ripples opens door to birth of the Universe
The Times | 8/20/2009 | Mark Henderson
Posted on 08/19/2009 7:20:29 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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