Re: [NPA Chat] Theory updates relativity and global warming- the Einstein way

[si wells]

Roger, et al:

 

Excellent critique. Einstein once claimed to be attracted to science after discovering that Bible stories were not really true despite insistence of authority. Curious that the scientific establishment has taken an attitude markedly similar to biblical fundamentalists: Starting from the non-negotiable premise that Einstein must be right, all reasoning and experimental analysis must be found to support relativity, regardless of how glaring the flaws-- like those who begin by assuming the bible to be infallible can never be persuaded by any amount of evidence to the contrary. I find that the 'global warming science' crowd manifests much the same behavior: "the science is in", "the debate is over", "there is no room for doubt", etc. reveals a very unscientific position of very unscientific persons. Whatever happened to critical thinking?

 

--S.I. Wells

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:54 AM, ROGER ANDERTON <r.j.an...@btinternet.com> wrote:

Me: Illustration of how one merely updates a theory as and when one chooses, as per the Einstein approach to physics:

Article:

Echoes of The Big Bang

Imagining the universe's origin isn't easy 13.75 billion years later.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285901885706224.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

By MANJIT KUMAR

'The theory is beautiful beyond comparison" is how Albert Einstein modestly described his theory of gravity, known as general relativity. He believed that "scarcely anyone who fully understands this theory can escape its magic." In the years since 1916, when he published a paper setting out the theory, few have disagreed, yet buried within his greatest achievement was also what Einstein considered "my greatest blunder."

The equations of general relativity can be solved in a number of different ways, with each solution representing a model of a possible universe. Like everyone else at the time, Einstein believed that the universe was eternal and unchanging, so he incorporated a mathematical term, the "cosmological constant," to ensure that that was exactly how it remained. This fixing of the equations was Einstein's great blunder, for he failed to grasp the full magic of his theory.

Back to me: So Einstein tells us how beautiful his “theory” is; then he arbitrarily adds an extra term.

My proposed Question: So is his “theory” without that extra term or without the extra term?

My answer: I think Einstein adds and takes away whatever he wants whenever he wants, so his “theory” is whatever --- whatever in the sense – you do whatever experiment you like and Einstein will claim the result agrees with whatever way he adjusts his theory. Involved in that process will be him claiming you (1) did the experiment wrong; (2) that’s an extra effect needed to be added to his maths; (3) that is an approximation of his theory's relativistic effects and you need to do the experiment more accurately (4) etc. But acceptance by Einstein that his theory is wrong is not an option.

c.RJAnderton2012

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