Posted on 11/28/2016 8:22:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
It will be interesting to see how this stands up to peer review.
Peer review is overrated. If there is a political standard at risk, the peers will protect their own hides.
So The Traveler was right! (/ST Geek reference)
It seems the only “settled” science is man made global warming!
I’m going with “God did it”.
I’ve chased gravity many times in my life.
....supposed to be......may not always have been.......controversial idea.....proposed ........might vary.........
SCIENCE !!!
The physical constant "c" is often referred to as "the speed of light" but it's actually the speed of propagation of gravity, and other massless particles, too.
It doesn't make sense that it would be faster for light than gravity, as proposed in this hypothesis...
Gravity is a heavy subject to discuss.
I don’t buy it. Gravity doesn’t really travel, but changes in it do. And the speed of light basically reflects how fast any effect—including changes in gravity—can travel.
It is good to read about researchers who are investigating “settled science”. Al Gore would disagree, but that’s how knowledge advances.
Anyway, these sorts of challenges to the consistency of the speed of light have always failed in the past. The announcement is followed (weeks or months later) by a retraction, and an experimental or a math error is usually cited.
The “Big Al” of science is not Al Gore. It’s Albert Einstein.
>>I’ve chased gravity many times in my life.<<
And caught it a few times I am sure! (as have we all)
I believe the difference in speed would have only happened for an extremely tiny fraction of a second. Something like the first .00000000000000000000000000000000000036 of a second, give or take a couple of zeroes.
“I’ve chased gravity many times in my life.”
Lately, it’s been chasing me. Or is that entropy?
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As always, anything but reality!
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You betcha. Here's an interesting article about how computer-generated gibberish papers passed peer review and got published in a prestigious scientific journal.
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-science-publisher-gibberish-papers.html
And here's the actual program that generated those gibberish papers. You can generate your own gibberish paper there. Use it and perhaps some lib college will award you a PhD.
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
...or maybe the speed of gravity hasn’t always been the same...
How does knowing this help me in any way? How does studying this help humanity?
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