Re: Anyone who claims to understand relativity is bending the truth

From: Bilge (dubious_at_radioactivex.lebesque-al.net)
Date: 01/02/05


Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:11:10 GMT


 Lars Wahlin:
> Anyone who claims to understand relativity is bending the truth.
 
  Better that than bending over.
 
>This is my conclusion after having read many books and papers on Einstein's
>relativity none of which has made perfect sense to me until I discovered
>one reason why. Namely, that Einstein's equations work fine for relativistic
>velocities in particle accelerators but fail miserably when applied to
>relativistic orbits in atoms.
 
  That is a very strange discovery, mainly because it's at odds with
the facts. Go look up the precision with which the lamb shift in
hydrogen is calculated.
 
>This is very serious since there are by far many more atoms in the
>world than particle accelerators.

  Yes, it would be serious if it were true. But it isn't.
 
>For those, like myself, who are not fully satisfied with all the
>explanations offered on relativity see http://www.colutron.com/
>download_files/einstein.pdf (67kb)

  I'm afraid that the physicists in the newsgroup already have enough
kooky things posted here to deal with without having look elsewhere.



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