Re: Does Relativity generate more heat than light?

Tom Potter wrote:


whereas GTR is an obvious dead end, non-viable Tower of Babel, that leaves no room for sentient man, and it wastes time, money and minds on pursuits beyond man's capacity to ever experience in time and space, like the birth and death of the universe, time travel, warping through space, worm holes, etc.


Potter, you certainly have misconceptions...

Newton's gravitational theory didn't explain what gravitation
is but does provide reasonable accuracy for calculations.

GTR provides a more complete understanding of gravitation
and is more accurate than Newton... orbital precession,
gravitational lensing, etc. and yes, GTR predicts accurately
the corrections necessary for Global Navigation Satellite
Systems (GNSS).

GTR is an essential tool in investigations of compact
astronomical objects... binary pulsars, supernovae, quasars,
supermassive black holes, galactic evolution and galactic
cluster evolution... Dark Matter distribution and cosmology.
And so on!
.

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