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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 02:04 PM
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Posted By Farsight
I was about to log off, but to show that I'm...

I was about to log off, but to show that I'm nothing like KK's ad-hominem aspersion:

I've answered this question before. You just have motion, it's there, it's empirical, you can see it...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 01:49 PM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
All: beware of insincere posters. See for example...

All: beware of insincere posters. See for example post #1966 (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10142158&postcount=1996) where I advised Kwalish Kid of the Baez...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 01:27 PM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
No, really, it's physics. And it's one of the...

No, really, it's physics. And it's one of the most important things in physics. Once you understand that clocks don't literally measure "the passage of time", you appreciate that when a clock goes...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 01:02 PM
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Posted By Farsight
The former. See his E=mc˛ paper...

The former. See his E=mc˛ paper (https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/www/) where he actually used an L rather than E:



Matter is made of kinetic energy. That's what E=mc˛ is all...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 12:08 PM
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Posted By Farsight
That's what they say. But like I was saying to...

That's what they say. But like I was saying to edd, Einstein referred to the electron when he was talking about a body in his E=mc˛ paper, and said the mass of a body is a measure of its energy...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 11:11 AM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
What's with the snip and the sigh? You asked the...

What's with the snip and the sigh? You asked the question, I answered it. I've seen footballers pass, I've seen buses pass. But you've never seen time pass. It's just a figure of speech. A...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 10:20 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 16,407
Posted By Farsight
I don't misunderstand it. There are no...

I don't misunderstand it. There are no negative-energy particles full stop. With respect to any observer. The "given explanation" for Hawking radiation doesn't hold water.

Don't. Vacuum energy...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 10:06 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 16,407
Posted By Farsight
There's not much to tell. In 2009 a friend of a...

There's not much to tell. In 2009 a friend of a friend invited me to write something about artificial gravity and free-fall inertia-free motion for a UFO magazine, and a guy got in touch saying they...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 09:26 AM
Replies: 4,176
Views: 328,459
Posted By Farsight
No I'm not. All: I've had a message on...

No I'm not.

All: I've had a message on another forum from liquidspacetime asking me not to answer questions on this thread, so with your permission I will again bow out.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 09:11 AM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
Only when Einstein used it, he was talking about...

Only when Einstein used it, he was talking about the limitations of the SR postulate. He was talking about speed. Here's some English translations. Unfortunately the word velocity used instead of...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 09:05 AM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Only it isn't. The mass of a body is a measure of...

Only it isn't. The mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content. A radiating body loses mass. That's what E=mc˛ is all about. If you were to hug an antimatter version of yourself, you'd be a...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 08:55 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 16,407
Posted By Farsight
Yep. Momentum is conserved and energy is...

Yep. Momentum is conserved and energy is conserved because what we're really talking about is energy-momentum. And for every action there is a reaction.

No you can't. It might look as if you're...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 08:45 AM
Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
It's all correct. E=mc˛ is correct. The...

It's all correct. E=mc˛ is correct.

The story goes that the Higgs mechanism is responsible for the quark masses, which is 1% of the mass of the proton, and E=mc˛ is responsible for the rest....
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 08:36 AM
Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Best forget about that. I wasn't going to mention...

Best forget about that. I wasn't going to mention it, it just muddies the waters.

Because time doesn't literally pass. That's just a figure of speech. A clock counts some kind of regular cyclical...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 08:04 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 16,407
Posted By Farsight
If it works, and that's a big if, it's...

If it works, and that's a big if, it's antigravity. More properly artificial gravity of course. But antigravity has more of a ring to it. A gravitational field is a spatial pressure gradient. Wasn't...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 07:37 AM
Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Not so. See Light is Heavy...

Not so. See Light is Heavy (http://www.tardyon.de/mirror/hooft/hooft.htm) by van der Mark and 't Hooft, not the Nobel 't Hooft. Trap a photon in a mirror box, and you increase the mass of that...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 07:01 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 16,407
Posted By Farsight
I haven't looked into this at all. But if I can...

I haven't looked into this at all. But if I can just play devil's advocate for a minute...

Is anybody sitting at a desk? Pick up a pencil, then let go of it. It accelerates, even though there's...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th August 2014, 06:44 AM
Replies: 4,176
Views: 328,459
Posted By Farsight
Noted, Belz. It's good to talk. Some people...

Noted, Belz.

It's good to talk. Some people round here like to talk about physics.

The particle is the wave, it goes through both slits and interferes with itself. Have a look at weak...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 03:15 PM
Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Not really. There's such a thing as a nuclear...

Not really. There's such a thing as a nuclear clock (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/new-breed-nuclear-clocks-could-be-100-times-more-accurate-todays-atomic-timekeepers), but you can...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 03:01 PM
Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Oh no I'm not. The mass of a body is not the...

Oh no I'm not. The mass of a body is not the measure of its interaction with some mystic cosmic treacle (https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cosmic+treacle). Note this in Einstein's E=mc˛ paper...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 02:48 PM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
It doesn't help. See the GR time dilation article...

It doesn't help. See the GR time dilation article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation#Important_things_to_stress) and note the bit that says "electromagnetic radiation and...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 02:39 PM
Replies: 4,176
Views: 328,459
Posted By Farsight
Well, I said I'd steer clear of the thread, but...

Well, I said I'd steer clear of the thread, but since liquidspacetime is on a break, I'll step back in to help the underdog. Yes, he isn't the easiest person to talk to, but IMHO he isn't entirely...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 02:32 PM
Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Yes, and I'll imagine that CERN have found a way...

Yes, and I'll imagine that CERN have found a way to producing clean cheap energy and manufacture hover bikes and space drives. But they haven't. What have they achieved? Er, the discovery of the...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 02:19 PM
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Posted By Farsight
No they can't, I explained the tautology that...

No they can't, I explained the tautology that Magueijo and Moffat (http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4507) referred to. The local motion of light defines your second and you metre, which you then use to...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 01:32 PM
Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Only I'm not. See this post...

Only I'm not. See this post (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10149642&postcount=2073) on the other thread. And you know I'm not lying.

All: sorry about this. I was...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 01:15 PM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
As I said I've provided the evidence in the NIST...

As I said I've provided the evidence in the NIST optical clocks and the Shapiro delay etc. And here's the Einstein quotes again. This is from section 22 of the 1916 book Relativity: The Special and...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 01:01 PM
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Posted By Farsight
LOL, he's made no argument at all. There's...

LOL, he's made no argument at all. There's various internet sites where people refer to the positive and negative field variation. Here's one picked at random...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 10:25 AM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
I haven't made a mistake. The various depictions...

I haven't made a mistake. The various depictions of electromagnetic waves...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 09:59 AM
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Posted By Farsight
I explained it, I referred to a paper, and told...

I explained it, I referred to a paper, and told you to look at some photon pictures. So you'd see pictures like this one...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 09:04 AM
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Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
Here it is: Curved space...

Here it is: Curved space (http://www.peaceone.net/basic/Feynman/V2%20Ch42.pdf). I'm a bit of a Feynman fan as it happens, but I have to say this: he got this excrutiatingly wrong. Curved spacetime is...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 08:45 AM
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Posted By Farsight
Yes I have answered your questions. Huh? I...

Yes I have answered your questions.

Huh? I said you can't define space in terms of anything else, because everything else is made of waves in it. I said a field is a state of space. I said time...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 06:34 AM
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Posted By Farsight
I didn't say "this change alone". But Einstein...

I didn't say "this change alone". But Einstein did say "light curves because the speed of light varies with position". And I have provided the supporting evidence, namely NIST optical clocks, the...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 06:19 AM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
No, I've given bona-fide physics. No you...

No, I've given bona-fide physics.

No you haven't. You've made an assertion, that's all. One that doesn't fare too well when compared with Einstein's description of a gravitational field as...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 06:07 AM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Sigh. See the picture of the light wave in the...

Sigh. See the picture of the light wave in the Wikipedia photon article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon#Historical_development). Start from the right and trace your finger along the red...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th August 2014, 05:45 AM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
But it does make it crystal clear that the speed...

But it does make it crystal clear that the speed of light varies in the room you're in. So I'm right, so I'm the expert, not the crackpot.

I don't deflect questions. I answer them. And if it's...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 09:05 AM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
Only I didn't. No, because space has its...

Only I didn't.

No, because space has its vacuum energy, and this energy has a mass equivalence. The energy of the gravitational field acts gravitatively in the same way as any other kind of...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 08:17 AM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
Semantics mean meaning. And if you don't know the...

Semantics mean meaning. And if you don't know the meaning of something, you don't understand it.

No they aren't and no we haven't.

You don't understand the mathematical aspects of the theory,...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 08:01 AM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Not me. I propound the physics of Einstein and...

Not me. I propound the physics of Einstein and Minkowski and Maxwell. The crackpots say "ignore that sacred-text nonsense, listen to me instead". Then they propound the crackpot physics and...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 07:48 AM
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Posted By Farsight
Not so. For example the relativity+ thread starts...

Not so. For example the relativity+ thread starts with me giving some history and factual information about electromagnetism (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169567)....
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 03:21 AM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
The 2D surface is curved "in a higher dimension",...

The 2D surface is curved "in a higher dimension", and then we have a sphere. Only the universe isn't a 2D surface. It's a 3D bulk. There is no evidential support for any "higher dimension" in which...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 03:08 AM
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Posted By Farsight
Yep, that's what crackpots do. And then they say...

Yep, that's what crackpots do. And then they say no no, it's gummy bears throwing gummy bears. You know, lightweight physics-free nonsense. Because they haven't got a clue what they're talking about.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 01:33 AM
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Posted By Farsight
Only it isn't wrong. Light curves because "the...

Only it isn't wrong. Light curves because "the speed of light varies with position". Not "because spacetime is curved". Spacetime curvature relates to the tidal force. This is so slight in the room...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 01:24 AM
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Posted By Farsight
No I haven't. I'm just not wasting my time...

No I haven't. I'm just not wasting my time talking to people who are abusive and insincere.


No. Because space has its vacuum energy, and "the contrast between space and matter shall fade...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd August 2014, 12:19 AM
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Posted By Farsight
I'm not the crackpot. I'm on the right side of...

I'm not the crackpot. I'm on the right side of the Einstein fence. The crackpots are the guys who say Einstein was wrong or try to get people like Perpetual Student to ignore what Einstein said on...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd August 2014, 08:45 AM
Replies: 534
Views: 79,068
Posted By Farsight
It says here that 60 medical staff have died from...

It says here that 60 medical staff have died from Ebola:

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/health-ebola-who-idINKBN0G14JR20140801
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd August 2014, 08:31 AM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
Nope. I've responded to edd. It's useless...

Nope.

I've responded to edd. It's useless trying to respond to ben m.

I've spoken before about Einstein proposing a hypersphere universe, and how IMHO his intuition somehow failed him when it...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd August 2014, 08:21 AM
Replies: 2,104
Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
Not so. I have a well-documented history of...

Not so. I have a well-documented history of offering substantive responses while receiving a continual tirade of insults from dogmatic posters who seek to spoil discussions. All you have to do to...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd August 2014, 07:42 AM
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Views: 375,651
Posted By Farsight
Perpetual Student: read the Baez article...

Perpetual Student: read the Baez article (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/speed_of_light.html), see for example...

"That the speed of light depends on position when...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 1st August 2014, 08:27 AM
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Views: 221,007
Posted By Farsight
You'll doubtless respond with some jibe, so...

You'll doubtless respond with some jibe, so you'll excuse me if I don't.

Reality Check: I've answered your questions.

Then forget what I said.

You know, I am really getting hacked off with...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 1st August 2014, 07:42 AM
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Posted By Farsight
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