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Testing Relativity
MGDruss writes "NASA are proposing an empirical measurement on the ISS which would test general relativity to a precision within the bounds of superstring (and other) theories to predict deviation." We mentioned the Cassini experiment last year.
Now all of the Trekkies will realize that Warp 10 isn't possible.
What ever happened to the concept that the simplest explaination is probably the best?
that only works in movies starring jodie foster.
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Relativity has already been put to the test. I mean, if time wasn't flexible, how else would Arthur Dent be able to witness the end of the universe every evening at Milliways?
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They think that Einstein's theory is in a quantum state, being both correct and incorrect at the same time until they try and apply it to a given situation. Then it resolves into a definite true or false state.
Of course, I could be full of crap. Its been known to happen just after lunch.
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Testing mathematical theories by means of slightly twisted democracy.
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I cannot easily envisage a picorad - but an accuracy of 1cm in 300 million km !!! I'm more use to working with plus or minus half a brick, it's close enough for government work.
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1000 years from now, they prove that the theory of relativity is true and then travel back in time and tell Einstein who explains the principals to us and through the act of putting it in textbooks makes us 'take their word for it' since noone can understand it.
To me, this is a very simple explanation and since the simplest explanation must be true, I think we have a winner.
I call it the 'Spears theory of enlightened time-travelers'.
My favorite string theory is the String Bikini Theory.
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Oh wait, I've confused Science with religion, again.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
as IIS and wondered why, if they're doing something as advanced as this, they don't have the intelligence to use apache?
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Well, the article says they are using the existing structure of ISS as a frame on which to mount their interferometer[s apart]. Of course this could be done without ISS, but it would require design, construction,
You usually don't need strong stuctures once in space. Have like long tape-measure tape(s) that holds the two probes steady relative to each other. Hmmmm. Off-the-shelf tape-measure? Call the probes "McGiver 1" and "McGiver 2".
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Huh?
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
I try not to think with my gut. It wasn't designed for that purpose. ;)
Relativity is bullcrap.
I heard so on Coast to Coast AM.
I think it was right after the chupacabra guy the other night. Or was it the bigfoot guy? I can't remember.
Anyway, that settles it. Anyone who says otherwise is a tool of the Establishment!
Now if you will excuse me, I am getting into my orgone box.
So, how do the astronauts on ISS feel about attempts to measure their deviation? And what type of scientists have come up with deviation theories?
Newton's gravity was tested and proven. So why test for anything else? So what if mercury's orbit is a little odd. Gravity works.
What? Mercury's orbit is odd? Why there must be another planet down there perturbing it's orbit.
Let's call that new planet "Vulcan".
I am off to point my telescope at the Sun now.
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Is that the theory where no woman wearing a string bikini would be caught within 3 miles of you? ;)
Coming from the guy who off the top of his head knew that "In the last episode of STTNG there is reference to Warp 13 (in the future Enterprise). This future time was only about 25-30 years from the TNG "present" which means it was in the same time period as the Voyager episodes"