Posted on 05/06/2009 10:28:23 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Gravity: A Theory in Crisis
May 5, 2009 — Note: This is **not** a joke. How could gravity be a theory in crisis? Isn’t gravity one of the best-understood facts of nature? Don’t we all avoid jumping off cliffs because of the law of gravity? Gravity is doing just fine, thank you. It’s our theory of gravity, and the cosmology built on it, that is in crisis – according to a report on PhysOrg today: “Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into Crisis.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at creationsafaris.com ...
That's a novel theory. I'd always thought the point was to try to convince the world that conservatives are creationist loonies, being done on a grant by the Democrat Party.
Now you’ve gone and done it, bringing in facts and stuff... how dare you?
I don’t ‘know’—as in scientifically proven; I rely upon inference ... what is it about mass (that’s an accumulation of particles) that warps spacetime? Something in the particles is responsible as they accumulate. Add to that question that ‘speed’ of an object influences the temporal passage for the object in motion—or an object caught in a gravitational field such a black hole.
Wonderful questions, MHGinTN! Somebody ought to be chasing them down.
[BTW, how's your book coming along???]
Actually, THAT makes a lot of sense.
“it is conceivable that we have completely failed to comprehend the actual physics underlying the force of gravity”....”.
Give the man a prize for understatement! We may not be able to fully comprehend how gravity works. So far the descriptions have fallen short and describing a thing is not the same as understanding it, a start, yes, but not the same.
If the nature of gravity is not completely understood it's not surprising theories based upon our very imperfect and limited understanding prove to be faulty.
Today in Fort Worth, it's weighing in at around 29.9 and rising.
Thanks for asking ... I’m about to finish it and move on.
OK, bottom line - does this mean that the next time I step on the scales I will weigh less?
==Any changes to theory will still have physics and astronomy being incompatible with the notion that the universe was created 6,000 years ago (or 10,000 or anything less than billions of years).
Not at all. Creation cosmologists have already demonstrated that it is possible for the Earth to be thousands of years old, and the outer reaches of the Universe to be billions of years old, and both be the result of the SAME creation event. See the following for more:
http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter5.pdf
I see you want to get right to the very heart of the matter!
PS Cool screen name!
The subject of time, particularly when one considers the possibility of additional temporal dimensions wrecks havoc on presuppositions, especially physical causality (Vafa, Wesson et al).
I firmly believe that the terms “dark matter” and “dark energy” are gonna sound awfully foolish at some point in the future.
Let’s face it, they’re made up concepts to reconcile the failings of current understanding.
Not much more than alchemy in that sense...
I’ve always had a feeling that the existence of “dark matter” was simply a cosmic accounting error that was throwing off our understanding of mass in the universe.
“Even if it does exist, dark matter would be unable to reconcile all the current discrepancies between actual measurements and predictions based on theoretical models.”
The problem is not with the theory, it’s the parameters of the model that are flawed.
LMAO!!!
(Thanks for the laugh! My son loved it, too!)
Could you point me to your novel, please? :)
“What Can You Do About Sagging Breasts?”
Wear two Sagging Gut devices.
You won't get a cogent answer. The only thing about physics that necessitates an old earth is the devotion of the physics community to the Temple of Darwin.
Physics has been contaminated with evolutionary nonsense since after Maxwell's time.
Thats cute.. well said.. could be kinda/fairly true..
My problem is with space/vacuum.. Space cannot be empty..
It must be filled with something.. What is nothing?..
If space is nothing, what is that nothing?.. the nothing must be something..
Dark matter/energy?.. I can live with that..
Even though we cannot see, touch or measure it..
It is there.... Where ever there is..
Dark whatever can also probably be here.. I sometimes know where here is..
Did I say anything?..
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