Posted on 09/27/2010 7:25:20 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
>>Yuppies ruin everything,
Yuppies Religionists ruin everything,
There, fixed it.
Rom 1:25-26
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen.26 Because of this, God gave them over...
NIV
"Created things" - ESPECIALLY man-made religious "things":
"fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time..."---Thomas Jefferson,
"The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
--Albert Einstein
Funny... If relativity were in fact needed for GPS work you wouldn't think you'd have people like Ron Hatch with a baker's dozen GPS patents saying that relativity was something which GPS researchers were having to work around, would you?
"...According to Hatch, "Much can be learned from relativistic clock behavior. The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become a primary source for knowledge of relativistic clock behavior. One of the characteristics of clock behavior clearly evident in GPS is that all clocks in the earth-centered inertial (ECI) frame that are at sea level run at the same rate. A clock at sea level on the equator should run slow according to the Special Relativity Theory (SRT) due to its speed in the ECI frame. However, a clock at sea level on the equator should run fast according to the General Relativity Theory (GRT) due to the spin-induced equatorial bulge which causes the clock to be higher in the earth's gravitational potential (i.e. at a less negative potential). These two effects, explained by two disjoint theories, are of exactly equal magnitude but opposite sign".The two Einstein theories of relativity are incompatible!
"Einstein's two theories, SRT and GRT, have no explanation for the clock phenomenon. SRT and GRT theories sometimes exhibit clock effects of equal magnitude which cancel and sometimes exhibit clock effects of equal magnitude which are additive. This cannot be coincidence, yet there is nothing within the two disjoint relativity theories to suggest an underlying mechanism. Since clock effects are a function of velocity squared (kinetic energy) and gravitational potential energy, it would seem that the common factor is related to the energy of the particle. But SRT treats kinetic energy as relative and GRT treats gravitation as a geometric effect of an orbiting body as following a force-free trajectory completely independent of energy considerations. SRT/GRT has no valid explanation for this phenomenon. Thus, both Einstein theories are invalid"!..."
The position of relativity in physics...
"...Thus, at the dawn of the 21st century, we again find an elite, smugly contented scientific establishment, but one now endowed with far more public authority and respect than that of the prior version. A veritable priesthood of high science controls major segments of public and private policy and expenditure for research, development, construction, production, education and publication throughout the world, and enjoys a cultural trust and reverence that extends far beyond its true merit. It is an establishment that is largely consumed with refinements and deployments of mid-20th century science, rather than with creative advancement of fundamental understanding of the most profound and seminal aspects of its trade. Even more seriously, it is an establishment that persists in frenetically sweeping legitimate genres of new anomalous phenomena under its intellectual carpet, thereby denying its own well-documented heritage that anomalies are the most precious raw material from which future science is formed..."
Einstein's attempted description of gravity as a four dimensional differential geometry thing cannot be squared with the idea of gravity having changed substantially on this planet recently; it also cannot square with the ESA having duplicated the basic Podkletnov experiment.
Heck, I’m still searching for the evolutionist’s ateleonomic “explaination” for instinctive behavior.
How does that which is inherently “software” get hardcoded into a mechanism that is without purpose, supposedly, by definition?
It’s even worse than that. Rupert Sheldrake is demonstrated to a statistical certainty that a number of things which we ordinarily term “paranormal” are real. How does any of that stuff evolve??
Excellent question, one I have wondered about myself!
3. Does the GPS confirm the clock rate changes predicted by GR and SR?
The highest precision GPS receiver data is collected continuously in two frequencies at 1.5-second intervals from all GPS satellites at five Air Force monitor stations distributed around the Earth. An in-depth discussion of the data and its analysis is beyond the scope of this paper. [1] This data shows that the on-board atomic clock rates do indeed agree with ground clock rates to the predicted extent, which varies slightly from nominal because the orbit actually achieved is not always precisely as planned. The accuracy of this comparison is limited mainly because atomic clocks change frequencies by small, semi-random amounts (of order 1 ns/day) at unpredictable times for reasons that are not fully understood. As a consequence, the long-term accuracy of these clocks is poorer than their short-term accuracy.
Therefore, we can assert with confidence that the predictions of relativity are confirmed to high accuracy over time periods of many days.
http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/gps-relativity.asp#footnotes
"SRT and GRT theories sometimes exhibit clock effects of equal magnitude which cancel and sometimes exhibit clock effects of equal magnitude which are additive. This cannot be coincidence, yet there is nothing within the two disjoint relativity theories to suggest an underlying mechanism.
>>>the magic of a universal speed of light,<<<<
Thought experiments are not a rational basis for physics.
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