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Einstein's Biggest Blunder That Wasn't

jose parinas writes "The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research. The enigmatic "dark energy" that drives the acceleration of the Universe behaves just like Einstein's famed cosmological constant, according to the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). Their observations reveal that the dark energy behaves like Einstein's cosmological constant to a precision of 10%."

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  1. Re:: Moving Dimensions Theory Unifying ST, GR, QM by 22RealMcCoy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hello All,

    Please respect that Moving Dimensions Theory is just a theory. Unlike String Theory, Moving Dimensions Theory is rooted in logic and reason, and it comes complete with a postulate:

    THE FIRST POSTULATE OF MOVING DIMENSIONS THEORY:
    1. The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions.
    More specifically, the fouuth dimension is expanding relative to the
    three spatial dimensions in units of planck length at the rate of c.
    I look forward to feedback and insights regarding its logic.
    Moving Dimensions Theory
    http://physicsmathforums.com/
    Questions Addressed by MDT:
    Why is the speed of light constant in all frames?
    Why are light and energy quantized?
    How can matter display both wave and particle properties?
    Why are there non-local effects in quantum mechanics?
    Why does time stop at the speed of light?
    How come a photon does not age?
    Why are inertial mass and gravitational mass the same thing?
    Why do moving bodies exhibit length contraction?
    Why are mass and energy equivalent?
    Why does time's arrow point in the direction it points in? Why
    entropy?
    Why do photons appear as spherically-symmetric wavefronts traveling
    with the velocity c?
    Why is there a minus sign in the following metric?
    x^2+y^2+z^2-c^2t^2=s^2
    What deeper reality underlies Einstein's postulates of relativity?
    What deeper reality underlies Newton's laws?
    What underlies the laws of Inertia?
    Why does general relativity fail at short distances? Why does quantum
    mechanics dominate at short distances?
    Why have so many great minds, Einestin, Godel, Wheeler, Hawking, and
    Penrose called for a new conception of time?
    If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
    --Albert Einstein
    If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
    --Isaac Newton
    Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, felt that the pioneer
    scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are
    not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."
    An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually
    winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the
    opponents gradually die out.
    --Max Planck
    Moving Dimensions Theory (MDT)
    Today I am writing regarding Moving Dimensions Theory-a deeper model
    for explaining diverse phenomena in both quantum mechanics and
    relativity.
    The General Postulate of Moving Dimensions Theory:
    The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial
    dimensions.
    The Specific Postulate of Moving Dimensions Theory:
    The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial
    dimensions at the rate of c in quantized units of the Planck length.
    Relativistic, classical, and quantum mechanical phenomena, as well as
    time itself, are emergent properties of this fundamental principle.
    Newton's laws, the principle of Inertia, Einstein's postulates, and
    the inherent wave-particle duality of QM may be explained with this
    model.
    A FEW YEARS BACK
    A few years back, while surfing a towering wave on the Outer Banks of
    North Carolina, a beautiful thought occurred to me. Suppose the wave I
    was riding represented a coordinate in a dimension. Then although I was
    approaching shore, I was not moving in this dimension.
    The dimension itself was moving with me-I was surfing the dimension.
    In a flash I saw that that is why photons never age-they are moving
    along with the fourth dimension, and thus stationary relative to it. In
    another flash I saw that that is why a photon's space-time interval
    is represented by a null vector, or a 0, no matter how far it travels.
    Indeed Einstein stated that an object's velocity through space-time
    was always c-even stationary objects are traveling at the velocity c
    through time! How could this be, were it not for a fourth expanding
    dimension, which matter could surf as photo

  2. Pointless post by yexela · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think it's quite stupid to post such hardcore physics on slashdot. It's impossible to understand that kind of article without MS in astrophysics or something.