NO. NO. NO. That’s not how science is done nowadays. You first have a Hypothesis, then build a computer model then gather the data to test the model and if the data doesn’t agree with the Hypothesis you “ lose” the data and then call people Deniers who think your hypothesis is nuts.
***That’s why “science progresses one funeral at a time”. Einstein’s dead and cannot call these guys’ results nuts. What I do not understand is why this wasn’t totally jumped on with another replication measurement because any physicist who proves an aspect of Einstein’s theory wrong will have his name written in the history books.
Einstein won’t be ‘wrong’ here. He came up with theories that when tested came up being eerily accurate. He also observed things in experiments that he couldn’t explain. (Spooky action at a distance; wave/particle behavior of photons under observation)
Science, when done using scientific method, is ACCRETIVE. Technology has improved markedly since 1907 too.
This IS groundbreaking stuff. They clearly waited and spent big bucks making sure they weren’t going to announce ‘Cold Fusion’ and then get egg on their face. It will take some time to verify these results. I wish we’d do it here, but there isn’t much science done in the US anymore. All the money is going to agitprop science, or the ‘science of what’s happnin’ now’ - more fire and brimstone than about asking ‘why?’
It will be jumped on, and there is so much promising science here that is within the grasp of both discovery and meaningful application.
Understanding gravity may eventually mean transportation without batteries or large fuel tanks.
It has been a great day, and this thread is just evidence of the day getting better.
God is amazing. Endlessly amazing.