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To: Cruising Speed

I suspect the results will be shown to be in error because experiment has already shown that the effect cannot be more than 10 times stronger than Einstein’s prediction
***The issue here is that the observed effect is 20 orders of magnitude LESS than Einstein’s prediction, although Fraudzagonner says the prediction belongs to Lorentz.


44 posted on 02/20/2014 6:12:12 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo; Cruising Speed
Kevmo, Kevmo, Kevmo.

Please learn some basic reading skills. The article clearly says, and I quote:

it proved to be no less than one hundred million trillion times larger than Einstein's General Relativity predicts.

No less than X-times larger, means it is at least that much larger. Not smaller. Larger.

And because "Experiment Trumps Theory®, Amen." Let us examine not what you have theorized the article says, but what I actually wrote.

The magnetic analog of gravity was predicted by HEAVISIDE in 1892. He predicted this on the basis of the fact that Maxwell's equations were known to be relativistically invariant, whereas Newton's Laws were not. This property is called Lorentz Invariance [or more commonly in the jargon Lorentz Covariance.] Physicists did not [then, 1892] know why this was true. Heaviside believed that the reason classical mechanics and electrodynamics did not agree was because Newton was wrong [and Heaviside was correct, and this magnetic analog does exist for gravity.]

Einstein is not the only person who worked on relativity. There were lots of other people who worked on relativity before, during, and after Einstein. A few during or before are: Lorentz, Poincare, Minkowski, and Maxwell, and Heaviside. Maxwell and Heaviside did not know about Lorentz invariance. But they knew the Lorentz force would be the same whether it was produced a reference frame in which electrons were moving or stationary.

The proof that Magenetism is nothing more than a relativistic manifestation of Electricity is something covered in every Junior/Senior level text in physics and EE -- and the next step, which every senior level physics student does, is to show gravity has the same property and to derive a version of "Maxwell's Equations" for gravity. This is what Heaviside did.

You claim to be a EE, so you should know Maxwell's Equations, and be able to easily understand this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitoelectromagnetism

And you should be better at reading than you are.

65 posted on 02/20/2014 10:49:35 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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