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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Steel Man of Einstein & Relativity. Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 03:33:49 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <00a9cb00ad7df66a0aaeefeac11278a7@www.novabbs.com> References: <23387e561af5e3d769b94ab9ddc5f74b@www.novabbs.com> <7dfa7214e108991221d9b7115961ca87@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1368975"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="e/c594/k+DpN5wgh4wNSTzdRTGbv1jGbBBUwvKr4Q3Y"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$a8JTlpXqI9ZnnpHK6oEexeWKszzTHEeuD58JdLTOtLQLgcN6hHmVK X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: 429c285600844fd6252e8828c51a974f0457e863 Bytes: 2593 Lines: 22 Yes, it is idiotic, not only because it pretends curved space explains the cause of gravity. This is typical of the pretentious nature of relativity. The equivalence principle also pretends to explain the cause of gravity and does not in the slightest. The above-cited article discusses how Einstein modifies Newton's idea about inertial motion, claiming that gravity is a sort of inertial motion. Since gravity causes accelerating motion, I beg to differ. The second reason it is idiotic is that it all rests on presuming gravity can be explained similarly to electromagnetism. Einstein adopted this from Heaviside's 1893 work. Now that the unified field theory has "failed" [-Britannica], there are few grounds to pretend gravity can be explained this way. Yet some persist, as with gravitoelectromagnetism (abbreviated GEM), attempting to find evidence from gravity probe B. Gravity and electromagnetism have little in common. Only that they are both forces obeying the inverse square rule; otherwise, they are very different. One affects only some materials, while the other affects all matter. One can be shielded while the other cannot. Since gravity is not electromagnetism, its speed is not c. Laplace and Van Flandern estimate its speed to be near infinite enough to avoid any appreciable effect of angular momentum. If the speed of gravity were c, the angular momentum would be such that the Earth would move out twice its distance from the Sun in just 1,200 years. Since gravity is not electromagnetism, its speed must be millions of times that of light.