The Einstein Dilemma

[CerebralEcstasy]

There's an article in the August 2006 issue of Discover called Gravity's Gadfly.

Has anyone else read it?

[learnin to learn]

nope

[UncleAl]

Originally Posted by CerebralEcstasy

There's an article in the August 2006 issue of Discover called Gravity's Gadfly. Has anyone else read it?

MOND is curve fitting, as is Dark Matter. Both lack a fundamental basis and neither is supported by a falsifiable empirical observation. MOND is incompatible with General Relativity.

Mordechai Milgrom created MOND in 1983. Slowly accelerating objects get a slightly larger gravitational pull than Newton predicts. Newton is an approximation of gravitation assuming c=infinity. Newton was wrong.

http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/sit...371&doc_id=924
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/onl...894026,00.html

"Radical Gravity Theory Hits Large-Scale Snag"
Science 292(5522) 1629 (2001)

"Although MOND succeeds in individual galaxies such as M100, it fails in galaxy groups like the Virgo cluster."

Dead theory.

The simple and perseveratively unevaluated alternative is that galaxies are a visible exact solution to General Relativity. Crunch it in a supercomputer for a few weeks and find out... but that would create unemployment.

[maddog]

Yes, I have read it. Though I will now go and read the Science citation that
Uncle Al mentions. I am hesitant to jump on a bandwagon untill there is
quite a pile of evidence is viable. Apparently for more than a selective few
examples, Milgrom's theory isn't complete.

Though quite incomplete.

maddog

[learnin to learn]

well it is a good theory, but it is hard to believe that 2 of the best physicists to ever live were both wrong!

[FRIPRO]

Originally Posted by learnin to learn

well it is a good theory, but it is hard to believe that 2 of the best physicists to ever live were both wrong!

Well Einstine was right about e=mc2 in our section of the Uiverse. The only thought that I would question this is, that the Ether of the Universe may have a different density in the farther reaches of the Universe, thus the velocity of light would be different.

I also believe that the velocity of light can be exceeded, if the wave or mass traversing in Universe were forming a bow wave, as in Cerenkov Light.
FRIPRO

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by FRIPRO

The only thought that I would question this is, that the Ether of the Universe may have a different density in the farther reaches of the Universe, thus the velocity of light would be different.

How does this comment align with the results of the experiments conducted by Michelson and Morley and others?

[FRIPRO]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

How does this comment align with the results of the experiments conducted by Michelson and Morley and others?

Michelson and Morley conducted their experiments in our section of the Universe. If they had conducted their experiments 100 trillion trillon light years from our galaxy then their results would be different.

[learnin to learn]

how can you be so sure?

[Li Zifeng]

special and general relativities are all wrong.