Re: Is Relativity Infallible??!

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 03/03/05


Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:18:08 GMT


"Koobee Wublee" <kublai@cox.net> wrote in message news:a6JVd.38462$Tt.36649@fed1read05...
>
> "Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com> wrote
> in message news:4227051d@usenet01.boi.hp.com...
> >
> >> Is Special and General Relativity infallible?
> >
> > Of course not. They are not religions.
> > One single repeatable experiment can kill them instantly.
>
> On further examination of Mercury's orbit, you can easily find that as
> bogus. It is very easy to fudge the answer after knowing it. This also
> goes for the deflection of a photon around the sun. On top of that, GR can
> explain gravitational redshift, blue shift, as well as no shift.

I have seen you fudge with just about everything when you
were calling yourself Australopitecus NeoNazi Afarensis.

[snip]

>
> And curvature of space which explains the deflection of a photon, but wait.
> You are going to tell me it is the curvature of spacetime. In this case, if
> the photon is deflected traveling towards the sun because of the curvature
> of spacetime, it must be undeflected the same way as it leaves the sun,

Did you prematurely escape from kindergarten?

Dirk Vdm



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