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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: The Einstein Effect
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:26:21 +1100
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On 11/01/2025 4:53 am, Don wrote:
> Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>> john larkin wrote:
>>> Don wrote:
>>>> john larkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/einstein-and-adam-grant-agree-the-puzzle-principle-will-make-you-instantly-smarter/91102339
>>>>>
>>>>> Cohen's book looks interesting, so I ordered it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm now reading Gleick's short biography of Isaac Newton, who was a
>>>>> very weird guy.
>>>>
>>>> Einstein loved the sound of his own metaphysical bark and wasn't above
>>>> fudging the score:
>>>>
>>>> <https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/58/9/43/399405/Einstein-Versus-the-Physical-Review-A-great>
>>>>
>>>> Regardless, my followup isn't about this thread's titular Einstein.
>>>> It's about Newton.
>>>>
>>>>      "Did you know? It was AYABHATA & not Newton or (sic) Leibniz who
>>>>      first developed Calculus"
>>>>
>>>>      <https://x.com/Aelthemplaer/status/1874573331330167032>
>>>
>>> Seems to me that if gravity has finite velocity, there have to be
>>> gravitational waves.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, and if there are gravitational waves, there must be quantization
>> effects. Where waves and matter interact, quantization occurs. The
>> scale of the phenomena, both in time and in size, may make it hard
>> to recognize it as such though.
>>
>> That said, there are plenty of examples of quantization effects in
>> the behaviour of objects in our solar system. Orbital resonances,
>> tidal locking, Trojans, what else?.
>>
>> Come to think of it, when a star gets ejected at high speed from a
>> star cluster, as sometimes happens,  isn't that in some way similar
>> to the decay of a radioactive atom?
> 
> For what it's worth, both the photoelectric effect in Einstein's
> equation and Millikan's measurement make perfect sense to me. Although
> light with weight works with me, things begin to become unworkable
> with Schrödinger and Einstein's field equations.

Schroedinger's and Einstein's field equation are both perfectly workable 
representations of reality. They wouldn't have become widely accepted if 
they weren't. If you can't get them to work for you, you probably need 
to sign up for a university course to improve your skills.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney