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To: thoughtomator

Oh you’re one of THOSE...you do know it’s been demonstrated in every experiment it’s ever been subjected to right? Even something like GPS wouldn’t work if GR was not accounted for. It’s demonstrated in the lab.


119 posted on 04/30/2019 2:18:38 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Please describe the experiment that tests general relativity in a lab. We can test quantum mechanics in a lab and prove things that conflict with general relativity.

GR is not needed at all for GPS to work correctly, nor is it needed to explain any of the other alleged proofs of its correctness. Meanwhile, it can’t explain things like galaxy rotation curves at all and ends up demanding complete absurdities that require physical impossibilities (cosmic inflation, black holes, neutron stars, dark matter and energy and so on).

That GR now requires the addition of 33 times the amount of observable stuff in the form of “dark” matter and energy in order to hold it together demonstrates that it is a dramatically failed theory and not a successful one at all; and as such, a reasonable person is all but required to question whether this theory has outlived its usefulness. There are more things GR gets wrong than it gets right - I could list phenomena that don’t fit the GR model, yet appear to exist, or alternatively those that are demanded by the model and don’t appear to exist, all day.

It’s well past time for a new theory more appropriate to a post-discovery-of-electricity era.


120 posted on 04/30/2019 2:51:59 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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