Posted on 11/18/2014 5:34:10 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
'Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong' In the late 1800s, Albert A. Michelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in the sciences, devised an experiment to prove the Earth is moving through space, through a medium for bearing light called the aether.
If he could show that light was slowed down by being fired into an aether headwind, like a swimmer swimming against a stream, Michelson reasoned, it would prove the Earths motion through space.
But the experiment didnt work the way he expected. In fact, it proved the opposite.
The world of science was baffled. Was the Earth not moving?
Eventually, however, another Albert, with the last name of Einstein, developed a theory called special relativity to explain Michelsons results.
It wouldnt be the last time, a startling new documentary called The Principle suggests, that scientists had to scramble to make their theories about space fit observable facts and experiments that didnt jive with their prevalent understandings.
Increasingly, bizarre and unproven theories such as the mysterious dark matter, dark energy, multiverses and the creation of everything from nothing, the moviemakers claim, have been thought up to try to make the hard data fit with an underlying assumption science has accepted since the 16th century.
But what if instead of dreaming up wild theories to explain away inconsistencies, the moviemakers suggest, scientists allowed the facts to challenge the underlying assumption itself? What if everything science believes about space is wrong?
The Principle, which is opening now in select cities around the U.S., boldly challenges the widely accepted Copernican Principle, named after Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. He famously argued Earth revolves around the sun and went further to suggest Earth is in no central or favored place in the universe.
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Wait. You mean the science on whether or not the Earth is moving through space hasn't been settled even after 500 years?
See “Michaelson Morley Experiment” for more about this scientific classic.
Trying to fathom this real quick.
I’m assuming first that “weight” of the moon actually was “mass” of the moon.
Known mass of the earth.
Known period of orbit of the moon.
Might be able to get it from there...
Might need distance from the earth to the moon...
I’d like to see this documentary sometime.
1) If you don’t specify a reference point, I get to do that.
2) Even if your reference point is the Horsehead Nebula, the weight of the Moon is still not zero. It may be smaller than your error bar, but it’s still not zero. Fg=G*Mm*Mhhn*R^-2
IF the UNIVERSE is INFINITE , then you can pick any point in it, and the entire 'known' universe is pointing at it.
LOL! Granted.
Gods creation is very real, and we are all in it both physically as well as spiritually.
I’d guess the movie is an exploration of the anthropic principle. Whether or not it is well done, I have no idea.
Gods creation is very real, and we are all in it both physically as well as spiritually.
When it dies, we all go on. At the white throne judgement, some of the “spiritual men” go on to eternal life in Christ, and the rest are finally destroyed for good.
The moon has no specific weight. Mass and density, yes, but weight is dependent on where you put the moon while you weigh it.
Bingo. You beat me to it.
That singularity, commonly known as the Big Bang, btw is exactly what we would expect to see today if Genesis 1:1 were literally true.
This whackadoodle stuff does make my eyes roll. But there is an unsolved problem in cosmology called the “axis of evil” that needs to be explained.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background#Low_multipoles_and_other_anomalies
So that means that our whole solar system could be one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. And one tiny atom in my fingernail could be one little tiny universe.
C_V - Just a friendly chops-busting from someone that went through similar classes...
Best
The mass of the a$$ is directly proportional to the heat of the meat provided the angle of the dangle remains constant.
LOL - post of the day!
Well played!
Cosmic solipsism. Assuming this theory to be true frees up a heck of a lot of time for better activities.
Mass vs. Weight has been pointed out already by many. In a biology class I was once asked to list the causes of old age. I wrote,
“1) Being born early
2) Not dying yet.”
Professor Roos marked me wrong but I argued my way to getting it marked correct. He meant “causes” but I pointed out that a man of science should never confuse cause and effect. He agreed, grudgingly.
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