Re: The "GOODBYE ALBERT" Experiment.

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_sirius.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:00:49 GMT

In sci.physics.relativity, Eric Gisse
<fsegg@uaf.edu>
 wrote
on 14 Oct 2004 16:46:05 -0700
<fd0fc2fa.0410141546.65ccde31@posting.google.com>:
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> wrote in message news:<ttb242-3ut.ln1@sirius.athghost7038suus.net>...
> [snip]
>
>> >>
>> >> Light does nothing when it is not observed. A photon is the ultimate
>> >> stealth weapon. Fortunately (?), the maximum size of a photon
>> >> is sqrt(h * c^3 / G) or 1.956 * 10^9 J -- about 1/2 ton of TNT.
>> >>
>> > "...And you tell people that, and they'll never believe you"</Monty Python>
>> >
>> > Watch Henri Wilson ignore all of the above as Einsteiniana.
>>
>
> It is 'argue with the cranks inbetween homework' week. o_O
>
>> Which is exactly what they are (AFAIK, anyway; some of them might
>> have been predicted by notables as the theory has evolved over
>> the decades); they are predictions of SR.
>>
>> (Except for the Planck energy; I'm not sure where that comes from.)
>
> Dimensional analysis :p
>
> Questionable use, but sets a nice scale!
>
>>
>> This doesn't make them untrue, of course -- and AFAIK they've been
>> nicely validated by design and experiment: design because such
>> things as GPS and particle accelerators must deal with the quirks
>> of SR and GR, lest they not function to spec; experiment because
>> a large number of measurements of lightspeed have been done, and
>> they all read c (within measurement error).
>
> As far as I know, GR isn't needed within accelerators - just SR. I
> would be thrilled if gravitation could be tested at those scales.

Mea culpa; it certainly would take a *lot* of energy to create
a particle with the equivalent of 1 kg. (There is the
"Oh My God" proton particle, though, which had an energy of
about 51 joules.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/ohmygodpart.html ) 

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