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Author: Foul Weather Patriot
Date: Sep 8, 2008 19:23

Oxymoron?
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  Re: Problems with the LHC?         


Author: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sep 8, 2008 19:11

On Sep 9, 3:45 am, Zach gmail.com> wrote in
sci.physics.relativity:
> Are there legitimate cause for concern regarding CERN's Large Hadron
> Collider?
>
> I saw these two websites mentioned in the newspaper:
>
> http://www.stop-lhc.com/
> http://www.lhcdefense.org/
>
> Zach

The only concern is that they will find some breathtaking "evidence"
for string theory and then silly string walks (and respective money-
making) will continue:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/afe829cf...?

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com
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  Re: Michelson and Morley experiment         


Author: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sep 8, 2008 18:32

On Sep 8, 4:15 am, YBM wrote in
sci.physics.relativity:
> Dr. Henri Wilson a écrit :
>
>> Anyway, the MMX null result was to be expected. There is NO aether and light
>> moves at c wrt everything at rest in the source frame. In other words, it just
>> bounces around the apparatus at c wrt everything in it.
>> Why would anyone but an idiot expect a fringe shift?

Silly YBM can only give an irrelevant reference. Still silly YBM may
wish to elaborate on a statement from his irrelevant reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberration_of_light
"In contrast, stellar aberration is independent of the distance of a
celestial object from the observer, and depends only on the observer's
instantaneous transverse velocity with respect to the incoming light
beam, at the moment of observation."

Would the observer measure a slightly greater speed of light, due to
his/her non-zero transverse velocity? Be careful, silly YBM!
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  Supernova 2008fl         


Author: Username Unavailable
Date: Sep 8, 2008 17:28

A magnitude 14.9 supernova, 2008fl, was discovered by Pignata et al.
at the Chilean Automatic Supernova Search (CHASE) on the 7th
September, 2008, in the elliptical galaxy NGC 6805 in the
constellation Sagittarius.
The supernova is located 10".3 west and 11".1 north from the center of
the galaxy.

Position(2000) RA = 19h36m44s.84, Dec. = -37°33'04".5

As yet the type is unknown.
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  The Great Space Race         


Author: Rick
Date: Sep 8, 2008 16:37

Is there a rich person out there who wants to sponsor a prize of a
million dollars for the first private or public company or
organization to send a probe to the moon, to photograph the American
Flag in honor of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing?

Its ok, if it crashes on arrival as long as it sends good clear images
back of the landing site and the flag.

I mean what a great patriotic boost that would be, for America.

And for the world.
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  Palin's religious craziness         


Author: Doghouse Reilly
Date: Sep 8, 2008 16:32

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  Re: Is speed of sound higher then the speed of light???         


Author: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sep 8, 2008 13:43

On Sep 8, 10:17 pm, Tom Roberts sbcglobal.net> wrote in
sci.physics.relativity:
> I belatedly realized I forgot to say this -- it brings a bit more
> perspective to the subject.
>
> Tom Roberts wrote:
>> When an astronomical object behaves just like the models of black holes,
>> we call them black holes. But we don't know what lies inside them -- the
>> MODELS contain a singularity, but we don't know what these objects
>> actually contain.
>
> When an astronomical object behaves just like the models of planets, we
> call them planets. But we don't know what lies inside them -- the MODELS
> contain matter of various kinds, but we don't know what these objects
> actually contain.
>
> When an astronomical object behaves just like the models of stars, we
> call them stars. But we don't know what lies inside them -- the MODELS
> contain matter and plasma and thermonuclear reactions, but we don't know
> what these objects actually contain. ...
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  Fox News         


Author: Foul Weather Patriot
Date: Sep 8, 2008 13:13

Oxymoron?
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  WHAT SHOULD CHANGE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS         


Author: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sep 8, 2008 01:51

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=551&Itemid...
Edward Witten (defined in Einsteiniana as the greatest living
theoretical physicist): "But one key facet of our understanding of
physics has not changed much in almost a hundred years ... this is our
conception of spacetime, where we still use the ideas introduced by
Einstein ... he introduced us to a strange new world in which moving
bodies shrink, moving clocks slow down..."

This "strange world" in which the bug is both alive and dead should be
simply abandoned:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html

Also, Einsteinians should stop teaching future presidents how to trap
a long train inside a short tunnel:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=nNgzqpKZwhE&feature=iv
Professor Richard A. Muller, University of California Berkeley
Physics for Future Presidents

Needless to say, Einsteinians should admit that they simply CANNOT
trap a 80m long train inside a 40m long barn:
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