Re: Wikipedia articles on relativity


oriel36 wrote:
Martin Hogbin wrote:
Most of the relativity articles in Wikipedia seem to have
been taken over by varying degrees of crackpottery. I
guess the crackpots are more persistent. Is there a
solution?

--
Martin Hogbin

The guys in the early 1920's get all the glory while you bunch pay for
their artificial and bogus constructs.

The basis for the 1905 symptom of the Newtonian disease was the
rejection of aether/absolute space but it is only proper to allow
Newton to speak on the matter

So,what did Newton think of 'aether' in 1704,it turns out not a lot and

he rejected it explicitly -


"The fictitious matter which is imagined as filling the whole of space
is of no use for explaining the phenomena of Nature, since the motions
of the planets and comets are better explained without it, by means of
gravity; and it has never yet been explained how this matter accounts
for gravity. The only thing which matter of this sort could do, would
be to interfere with and slow down the motions of those large
celestial bodies, and weaken the order of Nature; and in the
microscopic pores of bodies, it would put a stop to the vibrations of
their parts which their heat and all their active force consists in.
Further, since matter of this sort is not only completely useless, but
would actually interfere with the operations of Nature, and [314]
weaken them, there is no solid reason why we should believe in any
such matter at all. Consequently, it is to be utterly rejected."


Optics 1704


Albert managed to associate aether with Newton in 1905 through
'absolute space' -



Of course. if you plan to steal the glory of someone you have to
ridicule him first. We all know what kind of people introduced this
technique into all aspects of life.

Nevertheless, deviations from geodesic motion lead naturally to
absolute motion and Albert failed. This is well recognized in closed
philosophy of science circles and it is a curse on general relativity.
Acceleration remains an absolute spatiotemporal quantity and this comes
to polute the notion of a "general relativity". Albert was a bad crank.




" In order to be able to look upon the rotation of the system, at least

formally, as something real, Newton objectivises space. Since he
classes his absolute space together with real things, for him rotation
relative to an absolute space is also something real. Newton might no
less well have called his absolute space ``Ether''; what is essential
is merely that besides observable objects, another thing, which is not
perceptible, inust be looked upon as real, to enable acceleration or
rotation to be looked upon as something real. "

It is obvious that Albert was a very confused man. King of crackpots.



Mike



http://www.mountainman.com.au/aether_0.html


Funny,funny,funny ,a bogus history which created conceptual monsters.

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