Re: Does Relativity generate more heat than light?

Tom Potter wrote:

As can be seen, I am always trying to get ANY "Academic physicist" to take two minutes out of the time they spend being supported by the taxpayers, and prove the utility of General Relativity by demonstrating a real world example, like computing the tides, something Newton did centuries ago, computing by hand, and using his so-called primitive model.


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).

You've got to admit, Potter, that GPS have proved to be quite
the utility for the world... generating tens of billions of
dollars of economic and utilitarian benefit to the peoples
of this world. Both the quantum mechanics and general relativity
have made that possible. :-)

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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