The Great Deception
Over at Pharyngula there is a link to a talk summary (not surprisingly, related to evolution) that says
Evolution is the “greatest deception in the history of science”.
Wait. I thought Anthropogenic Global Warming was the greatest deception in the history of science
But, whither physics? Surely physics has foisted deception upon mankind, somehow. Ah, relativity to the rescue. Even worse than the evolutionary deception of Piltdown man, apparently
By now, science seems to be
so heavily invested in Relativity and Einstein, that it will be very
hard to admit Relativity has been so obviously wrong. It would be
like admitting to a crime.Lies in science have happened before virtually on the level of
relativity. In England a claim was made that the origin lay in
Britain, perpetrated by leading experts in the field of paleontology.
What they did was to use a fairly modern skull, filed off key
evidence from an ape lower jaw (joints, teeth), put them together
and claimed they had found it like that. This deception has lasted
for a long time, but not as long as the Relativity deception has.
And in addition
It is simply incredible that a theory with so many deceptions has held the attention of so many of physicists and other scientists from the field of natural and technical sciences for so long, and has managed to retain acceptability and even enter the textbooks for secondary schools and universities.
Actually, relativity and evolution are deceptions that follow from the Copernican deception. Evolution was the followup, and relativity was the third blow.
Once the Copernican Revolution had conquered the physical sciences of Astronomy and Physics and put down deep roots in Universities and lower schools everywhere, it was only a matter of time until the Biological sciences launched the Darwinian Revolution.
And then, after the Michelson-Morley experiment
Einstein’s Relativity hypothesis rescued heliocentricity from the findings of over 200 experiments which showed that the earth was not moving.
I always enjoy the conspiracy angle. We have so much invested in the deception of relativity that we just can’t afford to abandon it at this point. It takes tremendous effort, covering up such a theory that doesn’t actually work. Good thing it’s just a blind alley of physics, and no science or technology actually uses it.
Interestingly, I couldn’t quickly find the same vitriol-induced confusion over quantum mechanics. Perhaps it’s just that QM is so openly bizarre that despite the fact that there are those out there that decry it, it’s not considered deceptive.
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Egad. That relativity denialist is a good example of “a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.” He knows enough to use the terminology in vaguely the right way but completely fails to apply the theory correctly when it counts. He also has a near-complete lack of quantitative analysis.
It’s nice that he’s got a big list of ‘relativity refutations’. There are enough physics bloggers out there that we could each slap down one of his ‘refutations’ with plenty to go around. Any takers?
Abstract:
In this comment on an internet blog, we (note: We=I) will show why Tom had trouble finding nice statements why QM is wrong. Additionally, some implications for particle physics will be derived and no test scenario for any of the statements will be sketched.
Assumptions:
(1): QM/Relativity does not even stand a close inspection with school knowledge and everyday logic.
(2): QM/Relativity is publically advocated by most physicists.
(3): The keyword “Einstein” returns ~40*10⁶ hits on Google, way more than any other physicist.
(4): Einstein published Relativity.
(5): Einstein said “God doesn’t like Monte-Carlo simulations”, or something like that.
Deductions:
(1) => QM/Relativity cannot be right. (1a)
(1a) and (2) => The only reasonable conclusions are that either people agreed to a world-wide conspiracy with unknown purpose (although probably related to keeping their well-paid jobs) (A), or simply get brain-washed in their university courses (B).
(3) => Except for minor contributions by Steven Hawking, all physics is about Einstein. In the case of Einstein, being brain-washed in university cannot be the case as neither QM not Relativity was taught at this time. Therefore, Einstein must have been a liar (E).
(E) and (4) => Relativity is a big conspiracy. (C)
(E) and (5) => QM is not a conspiracy but merely an effect of confusion and delusion (D).
Conclusions:
- (C) => We must fight this worldwide conspiracy to avoid falling back to the middle-ages!
- (D) => Fighting QM should have less priority than fighting Relativity. Given its power to confuse people, it should best be avoided or ignored alltogether.
- Einstein caused a spontaneous breakdown of modern physics misconceptions into a real conspiracy and confusion remnant. However, the confusion part is reabsorbed into relativistic field theories giving particles to the masses of physicists.
- The author of this text has too much time on his hands, possibly from waiting for a Monte-Carlo simulation to finish.
LIKE, OMG… EVERYONE IS SO, LIKE WRNG, CAUSE, U NO, THERE SO LIKE DUM N STUFF. IM SO SMRT CAUSE I LIKE NO SO MUCH MOR THAN EVERYONE ELSE.
(Y IS NO ONE LISTENING TO ME
)
The crackpot/adult version of teen angst, anybody?
I had another thought on QM — it’s not a great deception, because so many people adopt the term “quantum” to legitimize their woo. Quantum snake oil is so much better than snake oil.
Relativity is a myth?
Try telling that to the people of Hiroshima.
Einstein’s Physics Dollar Store on Campus
MIT Harvard Cal-Tech
Sponsored by NASA
Why Relativity theory is not Physics and why Einstein’s “thought” = 0
Walking the walk and talking the talk taking on all space-time confusion of physics by
MIT Harvard and Cal-Tech and all other Physics dollar stores departments
And why LHC burned itself
Visual Effects and the confusions of “Modern” physics
r ——— Light sensing of moving objects ——- S
Actual object—– Light ——— Visual object
r – ——-cosine (wt) + i sine (wt) – S = r [cosine (wt) + i sine (wt)]
Newton– Kepler’s time visual effects — Time dependent Newton
Particle ————– Visual effects ——————– Wave
Line of Sight: r cosine wt
r ——————- r cosine (wt) line of sight light aberrations
A moving object with velocity v will be visualized by
light sensing through an angle (wt);w = constant and t= time
Also, sine wt = v/c; cosine wt = √ [1-sine² (wt) = √ [1-(v/c) ²]
A visual object moving with velocity v will be seen as S
S = r [cosine (wt) + i sine (wt)] = r Exp [i wt]; Exp = Exponential
S = r [√ [1-(v/c) ²] + ỉ (v/c)] = S x + i S y
S x = Visual along the line of sight = r [√ [1-(v/c) ²]
This Equation is special relativity length contraction formula
And it is just the visual effects caused by light aberrations of a
moving object along the line of sight.
In a right angled velocity triangle A B C: Angle A = wt; angle B = 90°; Angle C = 90° -wt
AB = hypotenuse = c; BC = opposite = v; CA= adjacent = √ [1-(v/c) ²]
The easiest way to show what happens to kids is to consider two clocks, identical. These are designed to count time by reflecting light up and down using two mirrors one above the other. It is the counting of time that matters, not the visual effects. You can do the same for mass dilation. It always works. But think of the energy needed to get up to 0.65 or 0.99 of c. Then consider what happens if you hit even the tiniest particle. It’s a crazy idea.
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