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Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 16, 2014 at 9:51 pm
Maybe and perhaps he will soon have it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/16/ha...elativity/
Quote:There is intense speculation among cosmologists that a US team is on the verge of confirming they have detected “primordial gravitational waves” – an echo of the big bang in which the universe came into existence 14bn years ago.
Rumours have been rife in the physics community about an announcement due on Monday from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. If there is evidence for gravitational waves, it would be a landmark discovery that would change the face of cosmology and particle physics.
Gravitational waves are the last untested prediction of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. They are minuscule ripples in the fabric of the universe that carry energy across space, somewhat similar to waves crossing an ocean. Convincing evidence of their discovery would almost certainly lead to a Nobel prize.
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 16, 2014 at 9:53 pm
(March 16, 2014 at 9:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Maybe and perhaps he will soon have it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/16/ha...elativity/
Quote:There is intense speculation among cosmologists that a US team is on the verge of confirming they have detected “primordial gravitational waves” – an echo of the big bang in which the universe came into existence 14bn years ago.
Rumours have been rife in the physics community about an announcement due on Monday from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. If there is evidence for gravitational waves, it would be a landmark discovery that would change the face of cosmology and particle physics.
Gravitational waves are the last untested prediction of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. They are minuscule ripples in the fabric of the universe that carry energy across space, somewhat similar to waves crossing an ocean. Convincing evidence of their discovery would almost certainly lead to a Nobel prize.
Man I love science!
I have a pic I normally put up saying the same thing but I can't put it up here because it has boobies in it.
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 16, 2014 at 9:54 pm
I wouldn't complain.
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 16, 2014 at 9:59 pm
(March 16, 2014 at 9:54 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I wouldn't complain.
Someone likely would.
I nearly lost my Facebook account because someone whined about one of my pictures last week.
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 16, 2014 at 11:25 pm
So you post topless pics? Add me...
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 17, 2014 at 3:28 pm
(March 16, 2014 at 11:25 pm)Napoléon Wrote: So you post topless pics? Add me...
Only ones in fun.
And some of mine from years ago in private albums.
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 17, 2014 at 3:51 pm
How long will it be until someone takes a bible verse and claims it predicted this...
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 17, 2014 at 3:52 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 3:51 pm)FreeTony Wrote: How long will it be until someone takes a bible verse and claims it predicted this...
It's probably already happened.
Just not here, yet . . .
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 17, 2014 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 4:45 pm by Alex K.)
Let us read from the Book of Yeshaihovakiel, chapter 12, where the lord speaketh to us, and says true things, which are true, for the lord spake them:
34 and the Lord spake unto the people of Canaan, and their sons, and the sons of their sons, and their sons sons sons, and he raised his voice and spake thusly as he formed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, as he said: 35 People of Canaan! Behold the wave of low frequencies which surroundeth all that is, from all directions equally. A fool is he who thinkeh it is uniform and devoid of variation, for it is not! 37 And truly, I, the Lord, telleth thee that it hath those fluctuations with ye knoweth as density fluctuations, but behold the polarysation: it wiggeleth, and vibrateth and it violateth those criteria which thou knowest to be false in thy heart already, for thou believeth in large field inflation, but hast not yet confirmeth experimentally, for thyne satellites suck. For the fluctuations are tensorial, and not only scalar, and I, thy Lord, told thee first. In thy face, biceps2 collaboration. Nunenunenuhnuh. Amen
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RE: Does Einstein Need Vindication?
March 17, 2014 at 4:35 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 4:34 pm)Alex K Wrote: 34 and the Lord spake unto the people of Canaan, and their sons, and the sons of their sons, and their sons sons sons, and he raised his voice and spake thusly as he formed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, as he said: 35 People of Canaan! Behold the wave of low frequencies which surroundeth all that is, from all directions equally. A fool is he who thinkeh it is uniform and devoid of variation, for it is not! 37 And truly, I, the Lord, telleth you that it hath those fluctuations with ye knoweth as density fluctuations, but behold the polarysation: it wiggeleth, and vibrateth and it violateth those criteria which thou knowest to be false in thy heart already, for thou believeth in large field inflation, but hast not yet confirmeth experimentally. Amen
"Until now, this text was used to condemn homosexuality, but in light of recent discoveries..."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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