{"id":12964,"date":"2013-01-14T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2013-01-14T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T08:00:27","slug":"this-just-in-relativity-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12964","title":{"rendered":"This Just In:  Relativity Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2013\/01\/09\/a-though-experiment-for-the-relativity-skeptics\/\">A thought experiment for the relativity skeptics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting thought experiment that shows how general relativity must hold, though I doubt it will work on the crackpot demographic, as it&#8217;s proof-by-contradiction, and ends up with a perpetual motion machine as the contradiction.  If you think those are real, the proof doesn&#8217;t work.  And also that <del datetime=\"2013-01-13T16:11:41+00:00\">nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition<\/del> <em>nothing<\/em> works on the crackpot demographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought experiment for the relativity skeptics An interesting thought experiment that shows how general relativity must hold, though I doubt it will work on the crackpot demographic, as it&#8217;s proof-by-contradiction, and ends up with a perpetual motion machine as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12964\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}