Re: What is your background in Physics?

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:39:19 -0800

BrendanPinto wrote:
>
> I just wantd to post this as a survey of everyone's formal (or
> informal) education in physics. I am just wondering this as I read
> some posts from people who will call Einstein's theories hoaxes which,
> as far as I know, is practically a sin against every self respecting
> physicist I know.

Science does not contain sin. Science suffers empirical
falsification, then does better. Relativity is a self-consistent
geometry. It contains no internal errors. The only ways to ding it
are

   1) Disprove the structure of mathematics as a whole.
   2) Provide a reproducible empirical counterexample.
   3) Provide a falsifiable superset theory in which Relativity is one
limiting case.
   4) Empirically falsify one or more of Relativity's postulates,
e.g.,
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
 Parity and Equivalence Priniciple
<http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/pdf/prl83-3585.pdf>
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0301024
 Nordtvedt Effect and Equivalence Principle

Absent (1)-(4), Relativity is 100% validated - zero exceptions in 90
years of looking - in all venues particle accelerators to cosmology.

<http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2003-1/>
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0311039
<http://www.weburbia.demon.co.uk/physics/experiments.html>
 Experimental constraints on General Relativity

Nature 425 374 (2003)
<http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2003-1/>
http://www.eftaylor.com/pub/projecta.pdf
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~rjjacob/Lecture16.pdf>
 Relativity in the GPS system

Science 303(5661) 1143;1153 (2004)
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401086
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312071
 Deeply relativistic neutron star binaries 

-- 
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
 (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf

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