Quote:Some years ago, "Tobor" (Jay Ford), the foolish DuckMan who ran one of the St. Regis alumni forums during its dying days, inadvertently gave me login privileges to the site. I managed to get a conversation going about neutrinos. The St. Regis "professors" didn't really know much of anything about them, but had a very large amount to say. It was like listening to small children debate the rules to football.
PFFT! Sounds like a cocky 17yo contemptuously referring to 12yos as "kids", while he's a "man" because he started to shave his legs last week...
Quote:Like to learn a little about special relativity? It's a mind-boggling, but breathtakingly simple theory, and probably the best-verified (within the limits of flat spacetime) of all physical theories.
PFFT!
I wouldn't know any of that from
or
which is moreless the same, but I watched countless programs and even a few beginner's courses (from TTC for example)...
1 Einstein seems to have once believed the universe to be still, Hubble set it straight. If I remember correctly, it involved some "constant" or other gibberish geniuses amuse themselves with...if I remember correctly again, Einstein referred to it as his biggest blunder...
2 Some guys on TV with many letters after their names announced Einstein's biggest blunder may now explain an ever-expanding universe...


3 Another guy with many letters after his name says he got proof the speed of light has never been the same...
4 An angle recurring in some versions of the big bang theory...
5 They seem to be finding giant gaseous planets circling their star at a short distance, which contradicts the common model. A man with many letters after his name suggests such planets to have formed the usual way, then somewhat drifted to that awkward position...
6 It seems the validation of the space/time thing comes from planes or satellites, whose atomic clock drifts millionths of a second (when compared to Earth clocks) in a direction that seems this far to validate Einstein's theory...
The impression a fry cook like me gets is they make it as they go along.
In 50 years' time we may be laughing at all this...
At least that is what they tell on TV.