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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Tom Van Flandern) writes: |
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>[email protected] (Cameron Randale Bass) writes: |
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>> [email protected] (Bruce Scott) writes: |
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>>> "Existence" is undefined unless it is synonymous with "observable" in |
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>>> physics. |
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>> [crb] Dong .... Dong .... Dong .... Do I hear the death-knell of |
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>> string theory? |
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> I agree. You can add "dark matter" and quarks and a lot of other |
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>unobservable, purely theoretical constructs in physics to that list, |
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>including the omni-present "black holes." |
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> Will Bruce argue that their existence can be inferred from theory |
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>alone? Then what about my original criticism, when I said "Curvature |
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>can only exist relative to something non-curved"? Bruce replied: |
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>"'Existence' is undefined unless it is synonymous with 'observable' in |
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>physics. We cannot observe more than the four dimensions we know about." |
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>At the moment I don't see a way to defend that statement and the |
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>existence of these unobservable phenomena simultaneously. -|Tom|- |
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"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have |
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no properties." |
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"Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the |
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space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved, |
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is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, |
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for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view." - Nikola Tesla |
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ET "Tesla was 100 years ahead of his time. Perhaps now his time comes." |
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