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Old 15th February 2017, 12:33 PM   #81
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Don't labour too hard, I hope you find safe harbour!
That's "labor," dammit!

I went looking for my safe harbor. It wasn't there. I know it was there yesterday. The Theory of Relativity must be falling apart, dammit!
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Old 15th February 2017, 10:49 PM   #82
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You should put on an Aluminium hat, that will protect you from the aftershocks of Relativity coming apart. Which could also be a movie coming to a theatre near you soon
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Old 15th February 2017, 11:14 PM   #83
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That's "harbour" dammit"
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Old 16th February 2017, 03:04 AM   #84
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That's "Aluminum", dammit!
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Old 16th February 2017, 03:15 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
You should put on an Aluminium hat, that will protect you from the aftershocks of Relativity coming apart. Which could also be a movie coming to a theatre near you soon
That's "film", dammit.
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Old 16th February 2017, 04:13 AM   #86
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Originally Posted by steenkh View Post
That's "Aluminum", dammit!
No! That's 'tin foil', dammit!

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Old 16th February 2017, 10:33 AM   #87
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
You should put on an Aluminium hat, that will protect you from the aftershocks of Relativity coming apart. Which could also be a movie coming to a theatre near you soon
That's "cinema" dammit!
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Old 16th February 2017, 12:19 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by hecd2 View Post
That's "cinema" dammit!
That's "damn it", dammit!
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Old 16th February 2017, 02:34 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Well, it has to be kept 'alive' for a bit, only 11 more months.
Ten and a half. Which is a RELATIVELY long time.
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Old 23rd February 2017, 02:18 AM   #90
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Has einstein's relativity yet been breached?
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Old 26th July 2017, 02:37 AM   #91
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Bjarne, there are less than 6 months left, I seem to have missed the consternation in the physics world where observations would make the theory of relativity fall apart.
How are things on your end?

It would be a shame if this thread just vanished when there was such a clear timeframe predicted.
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Old 26th July 2017, 07:27 AM   #92
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Bjarne, there are less than 6 months left, I seem to have missed the consternation in the physics world where observations would make the theory of relativity fall apart.
How are things on your end?

It would be a shame if this thread just vanished when there was such a clear timeframe predicted.
I doubt we'll hear from Bjarne anytime soon. They seem the sort who bides their time until they find something to spin. They have their hands full with keeping the old links on their old claims up to date! This link for example references a YouTube video that's no longer available, among other issues:

http://science27.com/relativity/
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Old 26th July 2017, 03:40 PM   #93
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Bjarne, there are less than 6 months left, I seem to have missed the consternation in the physics world where observations would make the theory of relativity fall apart.
How are things on your end?

It would be a shame if this thread just vanished when there was such a clear timeframe predicted.

I've been noticing short lapses of gravity inside my house - oh it goes zero-grav maybe 3 minutes at a time. Me and the dog have a blast playing fetch, at least until they switch the gravity back on.
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Old 26th July 2017, 04:11 PM   #94
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Still a month or so before the one experiment that Bjarne is going on about even launches:
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The one experiment that we have details about (ISS Utilization: ACES (Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space) / PHARAO) makes the thread title ignorant. ACES will launch in August 2017. There will be 6 months of calibration bringing us to February 2018. Then at least a year of data gathering - February 2019. Add a few months to write papers and the earliest we can expect results is the middle of 2019 and it may be 2010.
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Old 27th July 2017, 02:40 AM   #95
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I realize there is little chance Bjarne will return, but he made such a clear timeline and iirc claimed he would accept he was wrong is his prediction would not happen, we can always hope
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Old 27th July 2017, 04:31 AM   #96
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Actually, Bjarne has occasionally admitted he was wrong. Usually only to make some new, outrageous claim, however.

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Old 30th July 2017, 09:03 PM   #97
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Relativity hasn't been disproven, yet.
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Old 31st July 2017, 05:49 AM   #98
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Relativity hasn't been disproven, yet.
Are you sure? Did someone check behind the couch?

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Old 6th August 2017, 11:21 PM   #99
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And under the seat cushions, behind the car seats, all my pockets...., relativity still seems to be inact. But I did find .75 cents.....

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Are you sure? Did someone check behind the couch?


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Old 7th August 2017, 02:29 AM   #100
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You know, I never seem to see Mercury anymore.....
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You know, I never seem to see Mercury anymore.....
The damned enviros have pretty well banned the stuff, just because it's a wee bit toxic. Who cares, when it's such fun to play with it? You can't find it in barometers, thermometers or thermostats any more.

Oh wait, I think your'e talking about the planet. Never mind.
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The damned enviros have pretty well banned the stuff, just because it's a wee bit toxic. Who cares, when it's such fun to play with it? You can't find it in barometers, thermometers or thermostats any more.
But that's the thing, relativity has to be wrong. I still have a thermometer with Mercury and I never see any precession.
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You know, I never seem to see Mercury anymore.....
Haven't seen him since the '76 Hyde Park gig.

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Old 12th September 2017, 10:20 AM   #104
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September 1905, Annalen der Physik: "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?".
September 2017, has it began to fall apart yet?
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Old 12th September 2017, 11:40 AM   #105
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September 1905, Annalen der Physik: "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?".
September 2017, has it began to fall apart yet?
I still want to know how we'll recognize it.

BTW, where's the OP?

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I still want to know how we'll recognize it.

BTW, where's the OP?

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According to their profile, Bjarne appears to have taken a scamper back in June. I just sent a PM to see if that arouses a response.
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Old 19th September 2017, 07:45 AM   #107
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The kickstarter to destroy dark matter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...dar?ref=newest
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The kickstarter to destroy dark matter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...dar?ref=newest
Lame, just seeks to destroy the theories of dark matter. I will be saving my money to back a kickstarter that will actually obliterate this blasphemous form of matter once and for all.
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I still want to know how we'll recognize it.

BTW, where's the OP?

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Relativity is safe for the time being, but I have concerns about this woman's sports bra's structural integrity:



I'm not complaining, far from it. In the interest of equal time, here's an image of the opposite gender:



I know, I know, there's more than one "gender" and I really did try to find some other examples, but my searches kept bring up fetish porn instead of a simple sports related looped GIFs of, say, a weight lifting trans woman.

I think there's a commentary on the nature of society's relationship with transgender people that my effort to represent them in this post was stymied by pornographic material.
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I think there's a commentary on the nature of society's relationship with transgender people that my effort to represent them in this post was stymied by pornographic material.
That there must be a large number of people who on the outside shame and dehumanize transgendered individuals, but on the inside are frantically searching for transgender pornography?
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That there must be a large number of people who on the outside shame and dehumanize transgendered individuals, but on the inside are frantically searching for transgender pornography?
EXACTLY!

Thank you.
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I got distracted. News?
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I got distracted. News?
Relativity is about as safe as this guy's competitors in the restaurant business:

https://www.reddit.com/r/narcsinthew..._no_real_food/
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According to their profile, Bjarne appears to have taken a scamper back in June. I just sent a PM to see if that arouses a response.

Any response? In what reference frame was it "June"?
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Any response? In what reference frame was it "June"?
If you click on the username of a poster, displayed to the left of every post, you are taken to their user profile, which shows (among other things) when they last visited the forum. I just found Bjarne's first post in this thread (post #2) and did this; it says he last visited on 18th June 2017.
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If you click on the username of a poster, displayed to the left of every post, you are taken to their user profile, which shows (among other things) when they last visited the forum. I just found Bjarne's first post in this thread (post #2) and did this; it says he last visited on 18th June 2017.

I have been busy writing, articles as well as a new book, with the title "Modified Theory of relativity"

https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperI...?PaperID=76756
https://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperI...?PaperID=77930
http://pubs.sciepub.com/faac/3/2/3/index.html
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2017 only has a dozen days left.
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2017 only has a dozen days left.
Sooner or later the data is ready.
But I have to say I have not hear more about the ISS measurement project, even not whether it have started according to the 2017 plan .
In the meantime take it easy..,
I have been written articles about the opposite "force" - it is easier, faster, and much more choking to get started from there.
Read the articles I wrote. - These are connected to the same red thread.
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So you are saying you lied and relativity won't fall apart?
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