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Neil deGrasse Tyson May Teach Donald Trump About the Cosmic Conspiracy
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Pentcho Valev
Sep 30, 2017, 11:49:27 AM9/30/17
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"Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to teach President Donald Trump a thing or two... about climate change and other scientific facts." https://www.metro.us/news/climate-change-neil-degrasse-tyson-teach-trump
Tyson may inform Trump about the discovery of the cosmic conspiracy of the highest order - a towering great achievement of the human mind in the post-truth world:
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries, pp. 123-124: "If everyone, everywhere and at all times, is to measure the same speed for the beam from your imaginary spacecraft, a number of things have to happen. First of all, as the speed of your spacecraft increases, the length of everything - you, your measuring devices, your spacecraft - shortens in the direction of motion, as seen by everyone else. Furthermore, your own time slows down exactly enough so that when you haul out your newly shortened yardstick, you are guaranteed to be duped into measuring the same old constant value for the speed of light. What we have here is A COSMIC CONSPIRACY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER." https://www.amazon.com/Death-Black-Hole-Cosmic-Quandaries/dp/039335038X
Other Einsteinians will confirm that the cosmic conspiracy of the highest order is an incontestable fact, not the product of insane minds:
David Tong: "Special relativity is where the famous equation E=mc^2 comes from. The central idea of the theory is that there is a speed limit in our Universe. The laws of physics conspire so that nothing can ever travel faster than the speed of light." https://plus.maths.org/content/einstein-relativity
Robert Scherrer: "In fact, the laws for adding and subtracting speeds have to conspire to keep the speed of the light the same no matter how fast or in what direction an observer is moving. The only way to make this happen is for space and time to expand or contact as objects move."
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1113378923/cosmic-yarns-science-fiction-and-the-cosmic-speed-limit-042715/
Brian Greene: "If space and time did not behave this way, the speed of light would not be constant and would depend on the observer's state of motion. But it is constant; space and time do behave this way. Space and time adjust themselves in an exactly compensating manner so that observations of light's speed yield the same result, regardless of the observer's velocity."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/special-relativity-nutshell.html
Brian Greene: "Einstein proposed a truly stunning idea - that space and time could work together, constantly adjusting by exactly the right amount so that no matter how fast you might be moving, when you measure the speed of light it always comes out to be 671000000 miles per hour." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3-29dguFs
Donald Trump may be happy to hear the hymn in praise of the cosmic conspiracy of the highest order:
Lisa Randall, Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene: "Now, listen carefully. The faster you move, the heavier you get. Light travels at the same speed no matter how you look at it. No matter how I move relative to you light travels at the same speed. No matter who is doing the measurement and no matter what direction you are moving the speed of light is the same. The speed of light is the same no matter what direction or how fast... As you travel faster time slows down. Everything slows down. Everything slows down. Time slows down when you move. Time passes at a different rate. Clocks run slow. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. It's a beautiful piece of science. It's a beautifully elegant theory. It's a beautiful piece of science. It's a beautiful piece..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuxFXHircaI
Pentcho Valev
Tyson may inform Trump about the discovery of the cosmic conspiracy of the highest order - a towering great achievement of the human mind in the post-truth world:
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries, pp. 123-124: "If everyone, everywhere and at all times, is to measure the same speed for the beam from your imaginary spacecraft, a number of things have to happen. First of all, as the speed of your spacecraft increases, the length of everything - you, your measuring devices, your spacecraft - shortens in the direction of motion, as seen by everyone else. Furthermore, your own time slows down exactly enough so that when you haul out your newly shortened yardstick, you are guaranteed to be duped into measuring the same old constant value for the speed of light. What we have here is A COSMIC CONSPIRACY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER." https://www.amazon.com/Death-Black-Hole-Cosmic-Quandaries/dp/039335038X
Other Einsteinians will confirm that the cosmic conspiracy of the highest order is an incontestable fact, not the product of insane minds:
David Tong: "Special relativity is where the famous equation E=mc^2 comes from. The central idea of the theory is that there is a speed limit in our Universe. The laws of physics conspire so that nothing can ever travel faster than the speed of light." https://plus.maths.org/content/einstein-relativity
Robert Scherrer: "In fact, the laws for adding and subtracting speeds have to conspire to keep the speed of the light the same no matter how fast or in what direction an observer is moving. The only way to make this happen is for space and time to expand or contact as objects move."
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1113378923/cosmic-yarns-science-fiction-and-the-cosmic-speed-limit-042715/
Brian Greene: "If space and time did not behave this way, the speed of light would not be constant and would depend on the observer's state of motion. But it is constant; space and time do behave this way. Space and time adjust themselves in an exactly compensating manner so that observations of light's speed yield the same result, regardless of the observer's velocity."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/special-relativity-nutshell.html
Brian Greene: "Einstein proposed a truly stunning idea - that space and time could work together, constantly adjusting by exactly the right amount so that no matter how fast you might be moving, when you measure the speed of light it always comes out to be 671000000 miles per hour." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3-29dguFs
Donald Trump may be happy to hear the hymn in praise of the cosmic conspiracy of the highest order:
Lisa Randall, Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene: "Now, listen carefully. The faster you move, the heavier you get. Light travels at the same speed no matter how you look at it. No matter how I move relative to you light travels at the same speed. No matter who is doing the measurement and no matter what direction you are moving the speed of light is the same. The speed of light is the same no matter what direction or how fast... As you travel faster time slows down. Everything slows down. Everything slows down. Time slows down when you move. Time passes at a different rate. Clocks run slow. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. It's a beautiful piece of science. It's a beautifully elegant theory. It's a beautiful piece of science. It's a beautiful piece..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuxFXHircaI
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Pentcho Valev
Sep 30, 2017, 2:08:30 PM9/30/17
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: "I can send you off on a mission traveling near the speed of light, and time would slow down immensely for you." http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2017/02/02/neil-degrasse-tyson-the-next-time-youre-abducted-steal-something-off-the-spaceship/
Is that what relativity predicts? Of course not - special relativity predicts the opposite. A less dishonest Einsteinian would say:
"I can send you off on a mission traveling near the speed of light, and time would SPEED UP immensely for you."
Here are two less dishonest Einsteinians:
David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. [...] For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow..."
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf
"The situation is that a man sets off in a rocket travelling at high speed away from Earth, whilst his twin brother stays on Earth. [...] ...the twin in the spaceship considers himself to be the stationary twin, and therefore as he looks back towards Earth he sees his brother ageing more slowly than himself." http://topquark.hubpages.com/hub/Twin-Paradox
It is particularly sadistic to brainwash the gullible world by teaching statements that contradict relativity:
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "One of the towering great achievements of the human mind in our understanding of the universe is Einstein's theories of relativity. It makes only two assumptions: That the speed of light in a vacuum is constant no matter who is doing the measurement and no matter in what direction you are moving or how fast. You always get the same measurement for the speed of light. That's Assumption 1 which by the way the experiment has shown to be true. Assumption 2: The laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion relative to one another. Those are the only two tenets that you have to buy into. Given those two tenets, extraordinary spooky phenomena derive from them. For example: As you travel faster, time ticks more slowly for you than it does for other people who are not. The traveling twin when he comes back is only 5 years older, we have aged 110 years." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s1-RHuljo
Note the statement
"As you travel faster, time ticks more slowly for you".
This is the same pernicious lie discussed above. Actually special relativity predicts the opposite:
As you travel faster, time ticks FASTER for you.
The special relativity's prediction is wrong of course but at least it VALIDLY follows from Einstein's 1905 postulates. Neil deGrasse Tyson's statement is non sequitur - its presence makes any rational analysis of the twin paradox virtually impossible.
Pentcho Valev
Is that what relativity predicts? Of course not - special relativity predicts the opposite. A less dishonest Einsteinian would say:
"I can send you off on a mission traveling near the speed of light, and time would SPEED UP immensely for you."
Here are two less dishonest Einsteinians:
David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. [...] For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow..."
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf
"The situation is that a man sets off in a rocket travelling at high speed away from Earth, whilst his twin brother stays on Earth. [...] ...the twin in the spaceship considers himself to be the stationary twin, and therefore as he looks back towards Earth he sees his brother ageing more slowly than himself." http://topquark.hubpages.com/hub/Twin-Paradox
It is particularly sadistic to brainwash the gullible world by teaching statements that contradict relativity:
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "One of the towering great achievements of the human mind in our understanding of the universe is Einstein's theories of relativity. It makes only two assumptions: That the speed of light in a vacuum is constant no matter who is doing the measurement and no matter in what direction you are moving or how fast. You always get the same measurement for the speed of light. That's Assumption 1 which by the way the experiment has shown to be true. Assumption 2: The laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion relative to one another. Those are the only two tenets that you have to buy into. Given those two tenets, extraordinary spooky phenomena derive from them. For example: As you travel faster, time ticks more slowly for you than it does for other people who are not. The traveling twin when he comes back is only 5 years older, we have aged 110 years." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s1-RHuljo
Note the statement
"As you travel faster, time ticks more slowly for you".
This is the same pernicious lie discussed above. Actually special relativity predicts the opposite:
As you travel faster, time ticks FASTER for you.
The special relativity's prediction is wrong of course but at least it VALIDLY follows from Einstein's 1905 postulates. Neil deGrasse Tyson's statement is non sequitur - its presence makes any rational analysis of the twin paradox virtually impossible.
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Pentcho Valev
Oct 2, 2017, 3:47:31 AM10/2/17
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"Neil deGrasse Tyson, perhaps the most famous astrophysicist in the world and a seemingly affable guy, upset teachers and started something of a Twitter frenzy with a tweet blaming U.S. schools for people who believe the world is flat." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/07/21/neil-degrasse-tyson-blames-u-s-schools-for-flat-earthers-and-teachers-arent-amused/
Teachers are innocent. The blame should be put on Neil deGrasse Tyson himself and brothers Einsteinians who, for more than a century, have been destroying human rationality by teaching Einstein's idiocies. If we have to choose between the flat-earth idiocy and the twin paradox idiocy, I think the former is less detrimental to sanity:
Thibault Damour: "The paradigm of the special relativistic upheaval of the usual concept of time is the twin paradox. Let us emphasize that this striking example of time dilation proves that time travel (towards the future) is possible. As a gedanken experiment (if we neglect practicalities such as the technology needed for reaching velocities comparable to the velocity of light, the cost of the fuel and the capacity of the traveller to sustain high accelerations), it shows that a sentient being can jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth. This is a clear way of realizing that the future "already exists" (as we can experience it "in a minute")." http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf
http://negrjp.fotoblog.uol.com.br/images/photo20150819051851.jpg
Pentcho Valev
Teachers are innocent. The blame should be put on Neil deGrasse Tyson himself and brothers Einsteinians who, for more than a century, have been destroying human rationality by teaching Einstein's idiocies. If we have to choose between the flat-earth idiocy and the twin paradox idiocy, I think the former is less detrimental to sanity:
Thibault Damour: "The paradigm of the special relativistic upheaval of the usual concept of time is the twin paradox. Let us emphasize that this striking example of time dilation proves that time travel (towards the future) is possible. As a gedanken experiment (if we neglect practicalities such as the technology needed for reaching velocities comparable to the velocity of light, the cost of the fuel and the capacity of the traveller to sustain high accelerations), it shows that a sentient being can jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth. This is a clear way of realizing that the future "already exists" (as we can experience it "in a minute")." http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf
http://negrjp.fotoblog.uol.com.br/images/photo20150819051851.jpg
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