Re: Is General Relativity a useful TOOL or aesthetic ART?


"Eric Gisse" <jowr.pi.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:33:08 +0800, "Tom Potter" <tdp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
[snip spewing]

GR correctly predicts all observed gravitational phenomena. It is a
tool.

As I posted:

"Intelligent creatures invent TOOLS
and use the tools to mold a better world for themselves.

Languages, maths, computer languages,
and models like DNA, Newtonian physics, and Quantum Mechanics,
are SOFTWARE tools that man has invented,

and he uses these SOFTWARE tools in conjunction
with HARDWARE tools to shape his world
in an efficient manner."

Hopefully Gisse will make up short lists
listing some of the ways that the TOOLS,
DNA, Newtonian physics, Quantum Mechanics,
and General Relativity have been used to
"SHAPE man's world in an efficient manner.",

rather than the Urban Legend
about GTR being essential to the GPS System.

I will be looking forward to seeing Gisse's list
bragging about the things that General Relativity
has been used for to
"SHAPE man's world in an efficient manner.",

rather than consume time, money and minds
speculating about things beyond man's capacity to
EVER experience in time and space.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Of course there is nothing wrong with
treating General Relativity as an art form or a religion,
but it is wrong for governments to force taxpayers
to waste billions of dollars trying to rationalize it.

I suggest that the money could be better spent
on viable TOOLS.

For example, after Newton's model,
there were immediate and rapid advances
in mechanics, astronomy, etc.

After Maxwell's model
there were immediate and rapid advances
in chemistry, electricity, etc.

After Watson's and Crick's DNA model
there were immediate and rapid advances
in medicine, genetics, animal husbandry,
the history of the Earth and Mankind, etc.

Here we are, 100 years after General Relativity
and it continues to waste time, money and minds on such
pursuits as time travel, worm holes, gravity waves,
rubber rulers and clocks, etc. .

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

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