Posted on 03/15/2018 9:29:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
1. Starlight bends but how much?
Einstein performed a series of calculations to determine the size of the predicted shift but initially muffed the effort, arriving at a number that was half the correct value.
Had the astronomers managed to test this number in their initial eclipse-viewing efforts, their observations wouldnt have matched his prediction. But their attempts were stymied by weather in 1912 and by war in 1914. By the time they made the necessary observation, in the spring of 1919, Einstein had corrected his blunder and astronomers saw exactly the shift that he had predicted.
2. Gravitational waves dont exist or do they?
Einstein moved on to other problems. When he returned to it two decades later, he concluded that gravitational waves couldnt exist because theyd create singularities regions in which space and time are stretched to infinity.
Einstein had goofed because of the mathematical coordinate system he used to tackle the problem. It's a bit like what happens with the latitude and longitude used to track positions on Earth... It works in most places on the planet. But as one gets close to the poles, lines of longitude converge and the system breaks down.
3. Einstein and the expanding universe
Einstein was uncomfortable with some of relativitys implications, including one of the biggest that the universe isnt a static thing but an entity that must expand or contract. This was unthinkable to Einstein, who believed the universe existed in a steady state.
So Einstein added a fudge factor to his equations, a kind of energy associated with empty space. This cosmological constant allowed for a stable universe. But sure enough, astronomers in the 1920s confirmed that the universe was expanding. Einstein later called the cosmological constant the greatest blunder of his career.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
If the universe is expanding then why have the constellations not gotten out of whack over the last 5,000 years?
I see that in just about everybody I meet.
Dr. Lew:
I agree with one of Einstein’s theories, the Theory of Relativity.
Simply put, it says that all of us have or had relatives.
Can’t find any fault in that.
PS: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) might be the only exception to that theory.
Perhaps you didn’t know it but Einstein was caught in what I call a “KGB Sandwich”, back in those days an “NKVD Sandwich”.
his personal secretary, Helen Dukas, “was involved in Soviet underground work. p. 278
p. 279. US Army Intelligence quote re information given to the FBI.
“Einstein’s personal secretary turned the coded telegrams over to a special apparat man, whose duty it was to transmit them to Moscow by various means...”
She received coded telegrams from the Far East which were then given to a Soviet operative re the above paragraph.
“The Venona Secrets”, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors”, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, Regnery, 2000.
There is a lot more on Einstein and the German Communist Party and Willi Munzenberg Soviet fronts.
Later, his personal aide, I believe at Princeton, was Communist Party USA covert member Otto Nathan.
Thus Einstein, who had been sympathetic to the Soviet Union to the point of being either completely fooled or an actual sympathizer, was trapped in the NKVD Sandwich tactic. This continued to some extent into the late forties. Romerstein, pp. 278-279; 382; 397; 398-99.
And he did make/write several really stupid statements in support of Soviet socialsm and Stalin before the 1956 denunciation of Stalin’s crimes by Khruschev. I think Einstein died before they came out.
“I wonder why he thought so highly of Lenin rather than a socialist closer to home named Adolph? Oh, 1949. I guess Adolphs socialism had died by then.”
There was also that rather nasty anti-semitic streak in National Socialism than Einstein had to flee Germany to get away from ...
... but so long as the socialist in question was an “equal-opportunity” oppressor (a la Lenin), I guess he was OK with “The Professor” ... some things don’t change ...
P.S. Its spelled “Adolf” ;>)
And they all led to Global Warming ;-)
You are saying your beer supply is a gradient singularity in space time. You should publish this in the journal of hyper dimensional physics to claim credit. Could be a first for FR.
He could never bring himself to criticize Josef Stalin, though he lived long enough for most of Stalin's crimes to be revealed. He also thought the US should give up nuclear weapons to international control.
He was, like Newton, the kind of physicist who comes along once in a few hundred years. But outside of physics he was little better than a child.
Einstein was such a pioneer. The fact that he came up with these answers without being able to check them in the back of the book is really impressive to me.
He lived in academia all his life
His political views were wrong and he's entitled to have had wrong opinions - he never pushed those political opinions on others.
I think most people are like that -- either a little knowledge about many things or very deep knowledge about one and litte about others
I think I have a lot of knowledge about history but very little knowledge about nature - we all have gaps in our knowledge
I don't think it is fair to judge Einstein on his political knowledge errors - he never called himself a political expert nor did he foist his political opinions on others.
If he places dice, he has also occasionally played with loaded dice, as when God in matter flesh came and died for our sins.(God’s thumbprint pressed into matter. The house always wins!
What an idiot.
//sarc
Actually, the stars that make up the constellations have shifted, but they're too far away to notice much in just a few millennia.
Probably because Einstein was Jewish. It was a good thing for us that he was Jewish, too -- he might have made a significant contribution to Uncle Adolf's A-bomb program otherwise.
his hair didn’t make the top three?
inconceivable.
Hawking’s and other scientists’ pronouncements on black holes reminds me of a picture I saw of the Large Hadrian Collider. Amongst all the incredibly mysterious machinery was a bicycle. It is like me explaining the Collider from the standpoint of my knowledge of the bicycle.
Reads like something a high school student would believe.
No one who has ever really witnessed management in a large organization could ever believe central planning would work.
However, it must be noted that just because you worked in a large organization it does not follow that you automatically witnessed any management.
I don’t know what made Einstein so special - my second semester Physics book has all that information. All he had to do was read it.
Because 5,000 years is a drop in the bucket to these folks.
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