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Pentcho Valev...
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:32 pm
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Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:37 pm
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On Jun 19, 3:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
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Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
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Motion determines the curve taken through curved space. Light is the
least curved path and anything slower is a more and more curved in its
motion.

Mitch Raemsch
xxein...
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:16 pm
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On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
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Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
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xxein: What about it? Do you have a question?
Androcles...
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:42 pm
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On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
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Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein: What about it? Do you have a question?


Yes, I do.
Why did Einstein say
the speed of light from A to B is c-v,
the speed of light from B to A is c+v,
the "time" each way is the same?
Igor...
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:06 pm
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On Jun 20, 2:46 am, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Jun 20, 5:16 am, xxein <xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirec....
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  What about it?  Do you have a question?

Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innoce...
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?

If Smolin actually said it, then he's dead wrong.
Koobee Wublee...
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:29 pm
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On Jun 20, 7:12 pm, Yousuf Khan <bbb... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
Pentcho Valev wrote:

Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innoce...
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?

Let's not forget that during Newton's time, the speed of light was not
known, and was considered to be infinite. A finite lightspeed of 300,000
kps (186,000 mps) would still be deflected by Newtonian gravity, but an
infinite lightspeed would not be deflected by anything.

That is not a correct version of history. Lord Cavendish had already
described how gravity could bend light before 1800. His friend
Michell had already described how a finite speed of light would not
escape a dark star.
Yousuf Khan...
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:12 pm
Guest
Pentcho Valev wrote:
Quote:
Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innocent.html
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?


Let's not forget that during Newton's time, the speed of light was not
known, and was considered to be infinite. A finite lightspeed of 300,000
kps (186,000 mps) would still be deflected by Newtonian gravity, but an
infinite lightspeed would not be deflected by anything.

Yousuf Khan
Yousuf Khan...
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:35 pm
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Pentcho Valev wrote:
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Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Looks like he was the special guest lecturer at an undergrad physics class.
xxein...
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:52 pm
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On Jun 20, 2:46 am, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Jun 20, 5:16 am,xxein<xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirec....
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  What about it?  Do you have a question?

Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innoce...
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein: Who cares as long as we eventually get the physic right?


xxein: Who cares? I hate to say it in this way because I am such a
critic of present science theory, but the fact that light bends in
gravity is irrefutable. But I have never seen it described correctly.

I have done a ton of work on this. No one has even has a clue as to
what physically happens to bent light and the reference time
associated to it for observational frames.

It is simple and complete, but nobody seems to catch on. Maybe
because I haven't presented it yet?

I know you read a lot and are not very satisfied with the present
physic as we think we know it. Have you ever stepped back far enough
to re-analyze it? There is a certain point like somewhere between
alchemy and chemistry that can give a good starting point to be able
to re-analyze that science. The same with any other or physical
knowledge in general. Try it for a few years. If you are any good at
logic, you will find that all is rotten (in Denmark).

It's not that hard to find info enough to make a rational
investigation and find the physical logic. I did it before the
Internet. That should say something because I am here now and still
find no rational argument or theory that can circumvent or alter the
behavior of the physic as I saw/see it.

If you buy the argument that guesses are all we have and that some
work better than others, then there is where I am at.

I will not and cannot lie to you. I can't figure out how to connect
the observations of QM to GR. QM shows no recognition of gravity. GR
has no interface with QM. We can think on terms of one or the other,
each missing components the other.

I'm not doing a half-bad job of making that connection. I can connect
a gravity between them and give reason, but not much else for detail.
Not that reason and logic should be sloughed off here, but there is a
lot we haven't examined and what we already have examined comes with a
preconceived baggage of interpretation. Iow, what the public is
presented with is basically the resultant conclusion of the data ---
not raw data.

Perhaps another way of saying all of the above will be more
convincing.

I can use a different notion of the physic and get the same results as
GPS. The end result is the same. But I used the objective form of
the physic and then translated it into the common subjective form for
our observation. A completely different process that can separate the
objective physic from the subjective observance of it.

I shouldn't be able to do this if our present theories were the only
answer. This shows that we can math manipulate theories all we want
to get the correct subjectively measured result.

But more importantly, GR was supposed to simplify the matter.
Instead, it ended up in a quagmire of math with no clear physic as an
answer (except for self-generated math to try to keep up with
subjective observation).

Do you understand?
Pentcho Valev...
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:53 pm
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On Jun 22, 12:52 am, xxein <xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:
Quote:
On Jun 20, 2:46 am, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:





On Jun 20, 5:16 am,xxein<xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirector.aspx?peid=5f32739a-624d-4ec8-9ecc-4d44d3d16fe9&shouldResize=False
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  What about it?  Do you have a question?

Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innocent..html
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  Who cares as long as we eventually get the physic right?

xxein:  Who cares?  I hate to say it in this way because I am such a
critic of present science theory, but the fact that light bends in
gravity is irrefutable.  But I have never seen it described correctly.

Einstein described it correctly in 1911 when he deduced the equation
c'=c(1+V/c^2) showing how the speed of light varies with the
gravitational potential V. This equation is incompatible with
Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) and compatible with (more
precisely, equivalent to) the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's
emission theory of light.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev at (no spam) yahoo.com

Quote:
I have done a ton of work on this.  No one has even has a clue as to
what physically happens to bent light and the reference time
associated to it for observational frames.

It is simple and complete, but nobody seems to catch on.  Maybe
because I haven't presented it yet?

I know you read a lot and are not very satisfied with the present
physic as we think we know it.  Have you ever stepped back far enough
to re-analyze it?  There is a certain point like somewhere between
alchemy and chemistry that can give a good starting point to be able
to re-analyze that science.  The same with any other or physical
knowledge in general.  Try it for a few years.  If you are any good at
logic, you will find that all is rotten (in Denmark).

It's not that hard to find info enough to make a rational
investigation and find the physical logic.  I did it before the
Internet.  That should say something because I am here now and still
find no rational argument or theory that can circumvent or alter the
behavior of the physic as I saw/see it.

If you buy the argument that guesses are all we have and that some
work better than others, then there is where I am at.

I will not and cannot lie to you.  I can't figure out how to connect
the observations of QM to GR.  QM shows no recognition of gravity.  GR
has no interface with QM.  We can think on terms of one or the other,
each missing components the other.

I'm not doing a half-bad job of making that connection.  I can connect
a gravity between them and give reason, but not much else for detail.
Not that reason and logic should be sloughed off here, but there is a
lot we haven't examined and what we already have examined comes with a
preconceived baggage of interpretation.  Iow, what the public is
presented with is basically the resultant conclusion of the data ---
not raw data.

Perhaps another way of saying all of the above will be more
convincing.

I can use a different notion of the physic and get the same results as
GPS.  The end result is the same.  But I used the objective form of
the physic and then translated it into the common subjective form for
our observation.  A completely different process that can separate the
objective physic from the subjective observance of it.

I shouldn't be able to do this if our present theories were the only
answer.  This shows that we can math manipulate theories all we want
to get the correct subjectively measured result.

But more importantly, GR was supposed to simplify the matter.
Instead, it ended up in a quagmire of math with no clear physic as an
answer (except for self-generated math to try to keep up with
subjective observation).

Do you understand?
Nick
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:56 pm
Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 1851
On Jun 21, 3:53 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Jun 22, 12:52 am, xxein <xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:





On Jun 20, 2:46 am, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jun 20, 5:16 am,xxein<xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirec...
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  What about it?  Do you have a question?

Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innoce....
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  Who cares as long as we eventually get the physic right?

xxein:  Who cares?  I hate to say it in this way because I am such a
critic of present science theory, but the fact that light bends in
gravity is irrefutable.  But I have never seen it described correctly..

Einstein described it correctly in 1911 when he deduced the equation
c'=c(1+V/c^2) showing how the speed of light varies with the
gravitational potential V. This equation is incompatible with
Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) and compatible with (more
precisely, equivalent to) the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's
emission theory of light.

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com



I have done a ton of work on this.  No one has even has a clue as to
what physically happens to bent light and the reference time
associated to it for observational frames.

It is simple and complete, but nobody seems to catch on.  Maybe
because I haven't presented it yet?

I know you read a lot and are not very satisfied with the present
physic as we think we know it.  Have you ever stepped back far enough
to re-analyze it?  There is a certain point like somewhere between
alchemy and chemistry that can give a good starting point to be able
to re-analyze that science.  The same with any other or physical
knowledge in general.  Try it for a few years.  If you are any good at
logic, you will find that all is rotten (in Denmark).

It's not that hard to find info enough to make a rational
investigation and find the physical logic.  I did it before the
Internet.  That should say something because I am here now and still
find no rational argument or theory that can circumvent or alter the
behavior of the physic as I saw/see it.

If you buy the argument that guesses are all we have and that some
work better than others, then there is where I am at.

I will not and cannot lie to you.  I can't figure out how to connect
the observations of QM to GR.  QM shows no recognition of gravity.  GR
has no interface with QM.  We can think on terms of one or the other,
each missing components the other.

I'm not doing a half-bad job of making that connection.  I can connect
a gravity between them and give reason, but not much else for detail.
Not that reason and logic should be sloughed off here, but there is a
lot we haven't examined and what we already have examined comes with a
preconceived baggage of interpretation.  Iow, what the public is
presented with is basically the resultant conclusion of the data ---
not raw data.

Perhaps another way of saying all of the above will be more
convincing.

I can use a different notion of the physic and get the same results as
GPS.  The end result is the same.  But I used the objective form of
the physic and then translated it into the common subjective form for
our observation.  A completely different process that can separate the
objective physic from the subjective observance of it.

I shouldn't be able to do this if our present theories were the only
answer.  This shows that we can math manipulate theories all we want
to get the correct subjectively measured result.

But more importantly, GR was supposed to simplify the matter.
Instead, it ended up in a quagmire of math with no clear physic as an
answer (except for self-generated math to try to keep up with
subjective observation).

Do you understand?- Hide quoted text -

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- Show quoted text -

The Shapiro Effect is the slowdown of light by the slowdown of
gravitational time. In the experiment we have to wait a little on the
light that moves through s slower time.

Mitch Raemsch
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xxein...
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:44 pm
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On Jun 21, 7:53 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Jun 22, 12:52 am,xxein<xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:





On Jun 20, 2:46 am, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jun 20, 5:16 am,xxein<xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirec...
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  What about it?  Do you have a question?

Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innoce....
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com

xxein:  Who cares as long as we eventually get the physic right?

xxein:  Who cares?  I hate to say it in this way because I am such a
critic of present science theory, but the fact that light bends in
gravity is irrefutable.  But I have never seen it described correctly..

Einstein described it correctly in 1911 when he deduced the equation
c'=c(1+V/c^2) showing how the speed of light varies with the
gravitational potential V. This equation is incompatible with
Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) and compatible with (more
precisely, equivalent to) the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's
emission theory of light.

Pentcho Valev
pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com



I have done a ton of work on this.  No one has even has a clue as to
what physically happens to bent light and the reference time
associated to it for observational frames.

It is simple and complete, but nobody seems to catch on.  Maybe
because I haven't presented it yet?

I know you read a lot and are not very satisfied with the present
physic as we think we know it.  Have you ever stepped back far enough
to re-analyze it?  There is a certain point like somewhere between
alchemy and chemistry that can give a good starting point to be able
to re-analyze that science.  The same with any other or physical
knowledge in general.  Try it for a few years.  If you are any good at
logic, you will find that all is rotten (in Denmark).

It's not that hard to find info enough to make a rational
investigation and find the physical logic.  I did it before the
Internet.  That should say something because I am here now and still
find no rational argument or theory that can circumvent or alter the
behavior of the physic as I saw/see it.

If you buy the argument that guesses are all we have and that some
work better than others, then there is where I am at.

I will not and cannot lie to you.  I can't figure out how to connect
the observations of QM to GR.  QM shows no recognition of gravity.  GR
has no interface with QM.  We can think on terms of one or the other,
each missing components the other.

I'm not doing a half-bad job of making that connection.  I can connect
a gravity between them and give reason, but not much else for detail.
Not that reason and logic should be sloughed off here, but there is a
lot we haven't examined and what we already have examined comes with a
preconceived baggage of interpretation.  Iow, what the public is
presented with is basically the resultant conclusion of the data ---
not raw data.

Perhaps another way of saying all of the above will be more
convincing.

I can use a different notion of the physic and get the same results as
GPS.  The end result is the same.  But I used the objective form of
the physic and then translated it into the common subjective form for
our observation.  A completely different process that can separate the
objective physic from the subjective observance of it.

I shouldn't be able to do this if our present theories were the only
answer.  This shows that we can math manipulate theories all we want
to get the correct subjectively measured result.

But more importantly, GR was supposed to simplify the matter.
Instead, it ended up in a quagmire of math with no clear physic as an
answer (except for self-generated math to try to keep up with
subjective observation).

Do you understand?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

xxein: You have a lot more thinking to do. That equation is a
simplistic monomial one.

Do you really think it can apply to a changing universe?

If you were you born in a can as a mosquito larvae, you would already
see a difference.
Yousuf Khan...
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:37 pm
Guest
Koobee Wublee wrote:
Quote:
That is not a correct version of history. Lord Cavendish had already
described how gravity could bend light before 1800. His friend
Michell had already described how a finite speed of light would not
escape a dark star.


Yeah, this article seems to indicate that Newton already accepted a
value of 210,000 kps for light (30% lower than its currently accepted
value) during his time:

"Isaac Newton also accepted the finite speed. In his 1704 book Opticks
he reports the value of 16.6 Earth diameters per second (210,000
kilometres per second, 30% less than the actual value), which it seems
he inferred for himself (whether from Rømer's data, or otherwise, is not
known). The same effect was subsequently observed by Rømer for a "spot"
rotating with the surface of Jupiter. And later observations also showed
the effect with the three other Galilean moons, where it was more
difficult to observe, thus laying to rest some further objections that
had been raised."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#Astronomical_techniques

However, I do think the real matter here is that Newton believed in an
infinite speed gravity, not one that travels at the speed of light. At
that time they didn't think light and gravity were related by their speed.

Yousuf Khan
Androcles...
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:59 pm
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"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67 at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[snip KW the crank aetherialist and his stupidity]

| However, I do think the real matter here is that Newton believed in an
| infinite speed gravity, not one that travels at the speed of light. At
| that time they didn't think light and gravity were related by their speed.
|
| Yousuf Khan

This latter statement has no meaning, Yousuf. Gravity has the same speed
as the mass associated with it, it travels with it. Suppose you fell into
the Earth's field (or any other body) and accelerated toward the planet.
That is rather like diving into water and asking what the speed of wetness
is. You can only measure speed if you can measure change, and field
with an associated body has NO change, it is static.
We can create a changing magnetic field quite easily, simply switch on a
current through a coil, and we can time a duration when that field reaches
and deflects a distant compass needle, hence we can say the speed of
magnetism has a value in meters per second. What we cannot do is turn
on a gravity generator and give a speed of gravity.
Now, having turned on the electromagnet (or using a powerful fixed magnet
such as you'll find in an old hard drive) the field moves with the magnet,
it
doesn't have ANY velocity with respect to the mass associated with it.
xxein...
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:04 pm
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On Jun 21, 7:53 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Jun 22, 12:52 am,xxein<xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:





On Jun 20, 2:46 am, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jun 20, 5:16 am,xxein<xxe... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Jun 19, 7:32 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirec...
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
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xxein:  What about it?  Do you have a question?

Journalists believe Newton can also bend light:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2007/09/arthur_eddington_was_innoce....
Journalists: "And contrary to popular belief, Newtonian physics did
not predict that light would remain undeflected – Einstein himself
pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should cause some deviation
too."

Who is right: Lee Smolin ("popular belief") or journalists?

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xxein:  Who cares as long as we eventually get the physic right?

xxein:  Who cares?  I hate to say it in this way because I am such a
critic of present science theory, but the fact that light bends in
gravity is irrefutable.  But I have never seen it described correctly..

Einstein described it correctly in 1911 when he deduced the equation
c'=c(1+V/c^2) showing how the speed of light varies with the
gravitational potential V. This equation is incompatible with
Einstein's 1905 light postulate (c'=c) and compatible with (more
precisely, equivalent to) the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's
emission theory of light.

Pentcho Valev
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I have done a ton of work on this.  No one has even has a clue as to
what physically happens to bent light and the reference time
associated to it for observational frames.

It is simple and complete, but nobody seems to catch on.  Maybe
because I haven't presented it yet?

I know you read a lot and are not very satisfied with the present
physic as we think we know it.  Have you ever stepped back far enough
to re-analyze it?  There is a certain point like somewhere between
alchemy and chemistry that can give a good starting point to be able
to re-analyze that science.  The same with any other or physical
knowledge in general.  Try it for a few years.  If you are any good at
logic, you will find that all is rotten (in Denmark).

It's not that hard to find info enough to make a rational
investigation and find the physical logic.  I did it before the
Internet.  That should say something because I am here now and still
find no rational argument or theory that can circumvent or alter the
behavior of the physic as I saw/see it.

If you buy the argument that guesses are all we have and that some
work better than others, then there is where I am at.

I will not and cannot lie to you.  I can't figure out how to connect
the observations of QM to GR.  QM shows no recognition of gravity.  GR
has no interface with QM.  We can think on terms of one or the other,
each missing components the other.

I'm not doing a half-bad job of making that connection.  I can connect
a gravity between them and give reason, but not much else for detail.
Not that reason and logic should be sloughed off here, but there is a
lot we haven't examined and what we already have examined comes with a
preconceived baggage of interpretation.  Iow, what the public is
presented with is basically the resultant conclusion of the data ---
not raw data.

Perhaps another way of saying all of the above will be more
convincing.

I can use a different notion of the physic and get the same results as
GPS.  The end result is the same.  But I used the objective form of
the physic and then translated it into the common subjective form for
our observation.  A completely different process that can separate the
objective physic from the subjective observance of it.

I shouldn't be able to do this if our present theories were the only
answer.  This shows that we can math manipulate theories all we want
to get the correct subjectively measured result.

But more importantly, GR was supposed to simplify the matter.
Instead, it ended up in a quagmire of math with no clear physic as an
answer (except for self-generated math to try to keep up with
subjective observation).

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xxein: V or v does not relate to a non-linear gravitational function
as presented by you. Don't get stupid. You should know better.
 
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