Paul Johnson, the British historian, cites this as the day the modern age began in earnest.
He implies that the notion of relativity vis a vis spacetime was widely conflated with moral relativism and the world started down the slippery slope away from moral absolutes.
It is an interesting theory, one he supports further in Modern Times.
Me, I think everything started turning to crap after "Right-Turn-on-Red" legislation started showing up all over the USA in the 1970s.
It was the last of the era of self-control.
Licentiousness and chaos ensued.
Einstein’ theory was first proven correct when Einstein himself used it to calculate Mercury’s precession of perihelion. It had never been done successfully until then. Einstein said that it gave him heart palpitations.
Dang! I just used this to explain how a theory proven right confirms the theory with a leftist I know and used this example. Little did I know it was so apt!
So if I predicted that Avanati, Smollet, and Trump/Russia collusion were all hoaxes, does that prove my “Useful Idiots Supporting Leftist Bull” theory about the media is correct?
Great post, thanks.
“This is why in the shadow of the perfect theory, all the accompanying hoopla surrounding the theory of man-made global warming or climate change in our time fails to meet the criterion of testability, such as Eddingtons expedition put to test Einsteins theory of general relativity and, hence, the so-called science of man-made global warming might well be described as voodoo-science.”
likewise the ridiculous Darwian evolution THEORY: voodoo-science as well ...
True information. Sadly, the author is probably in high school. “A rising star among British astronomers...” Lame writing.
Sir A. Eddington rode his bike every day, lived with his sister and proved that Einstein’s theory was correct. Eddington used the solar eclipse to prove that the sun’s gravity bends the light of starts just a little bit.
Eddington lived with other geniuses, such as Dirac, and always hoped that future geniuses would explain his obscure M theory. Never happened. Eddington’s M theory is still obscure. Even Stephen Hawking could not explain it.
Sir Eddington was a favorite Natural Philosopher among many physicists of his day.
True information. Sadly, the author is probably in high school. “A rising star among British astronomers...” Lame writing.
Sir A. Eddington rode his bike every day, lived with his sister and proved that Einstein’s theory was correct. Eddington used the solar eclipse to prove that the sun’s gravity bends the light of starts just a little bit.
Eddington lived with other geniuses, such as Dirac, and always hoped that future geniuses would explain his obscure M theory. Never happened. Eddington’s M theory is still obscure. Even Stephen Hawking could not explain it.
Sir Eddington was a favorite Natural Philosopher among many physicists of his day.
Like the 5% background radiation (or whatever it is) it just doesn't disprove the theory.
What if those photons passing by the sun are affected by the photons coming out of the sun, or by other radiation from the sun, or its magnetic field; or whatever other stuff we have no clue about?
ML/NJ
From the article (which was quite good):
” . . . only 4 percent of the universe is made of known forms of matter and energy of which we humans are an insignificantly tiny part . . .”
From a purely materialistic point of view, that’s exactly correct; but if one views “we humans” as created in the image of God, and the rest of the universe as elaborate (if cold and dead) decoration, that evaluation of significance changes a bit.
He knocked a woman up, then left her for his cousin.
Later he left his cousin for his cousin’s DAUGHTER.
He was Woody Allen on steroids long before Woody Allen himself.
But everyone thinks he was an endearing old man with funny hair who was nice to everyone.
Tesla debunked relativity theory...