From: robert j. kolker (nowhere@nowhere.net)
Subject: Re: The Origin of The Universe / S D Rodrian
Newsgroups: sci.physics, gac.physics.astronomy, sci.astro,
alt.astronomy, alt.sci.physics
Date: 2005-02-02 08:48:24 PST
SDR wrote:
General relativity describes perfectly the way "universal gravitation"
shapes the universe... GR simply does not explain exactly what
"gravity" is (and that's where I come in).
And neither has anything else. Gravitation is an observable fact. Its
explanations and causes are hypothetical. What counts are the
predictions made from those hypothetical causes and laws. If the
predictions are good, all is well. If not, not.
Dear Bob, not everybody is like you--Perhaps you're an architect
and your only interest is in a few lines & curves, and how well
they work in making rabbit hutches. But most scientists get into
their life's quest because they want to know the reasons for things.
It was startling departure when physics first began to abandon
its duty to explain why it is that things are the way they are, and
became, as you state so impertinently, content to describe things
as they appear (and where that leads things). But I can assure you
that IF physics could explain the reason why things are they way
they are... it would.
There is no end to theoreticians' attempts to do this. But they are
hampered (tied) by having to begin from a fundamentally erroneous
assumption (that the universe is filled with fundamental/absolute
objects which are expanding in an absolute way). But I give them
gobs of Brownie points for their brave attempts nonetheless [there
is out there, as we speak, a new theory that inertia is caused by
real particles crashing against virtual particles (and naturally the
faster real particles move the more virtual particles they crash
against increasing mass, etc.), truly amazingly clever/inventive
stuff, although just as amazingly pathetically silly... don't they
have to account for the inertia of the virtual particles, or is this
another solution where the laws of physics (Newton) cease to
work for the benefit of making the theory elegant?]. Same thing
with all those dimensions/branes which sustain ours (why hasn't
this proposal shifted the question of where our dimension came
from to where/how all those other dimensions/branes came from
--if you're asking where it all came from and your answer is "God"
hasn't the onus shifted to where does God come from?...
You have no more valid idea of the basic causes of gravitation than the
smartest physicists who have ever lived. Bob Kolker
Trust me for a little while (how long can it take to read a mere
10,000 words), and learn the real solution once & for all. Go thou:
http://physics.sdrodrian.com
Look, a basic postulate of the theory of General Relativity is that "a
uniform gravitational field (like that near the Earth) is equivalent to
a uniform acceleration." Well my text, for the first time ever explains
how/why/what/where the acceleration (that "is" gravity) comes from, what
it is. And why it is an inevitable result of our reality. Read & learn.
I shall be glad to answer any question you have. I know a lot
of stuff, you know... what women really want... you name it. Just
hurry: I'm only for a while.
S D Rodrian
http://poems.sdrodrian.com
http://physics.sdrodrian.com
http://ar.sdrodrian.com
http://music.sdrodrian.com
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