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Solar System in a Can May Reveal Hidden Dimensions
dylanduck writes "A model solar system, made of tungsten and placed in space, could reveal hidden spatial dimensions and test alternative theories of gravity. If the system's 'planets' moved slightly differently to the way predicted by standard gravity, it would signal the presence of new physical phenomena." From the article: "Once at the Lagrange point, the artificial solar system would be set in motion inside the spacecraft. An 8-centimetre-wide sphere of tungsten would act as an artificial sun, while a smaller test sphere would be launched 10 cm away into an oval-shaped orbit. The miniscule planet would orbit its tungsten sun 3,000 times per year."
I was wondering the same thing. Hopefully the isolation sphere or whatever contains the experiement contains large mass that is evenly distributed.
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A variant of this happens with the Gravity B Experiment
The whole problem we have here is that the data keeps having to be fudged to try and keep Einstein in the catbird's seat. Simply stated the data isn't there. Special Relativity is a theory. It is a theory that now can be shown to have glaring flaws and gaping holes. I know this upsets some people but is simply is true.
Whenever someone dares question the Einstein religious nuts and their "universal facts", they get attacked and modded down. How about a little science for a change. I think it might be useful. The whole system that the Einstein bunch has constructed is coming apart in the face of more and more data that does not support it. The Neutreno's are missing, The energy is missing, the Matter is missing so we have to invent ever more funny things like dark matter and dark energy and .... to get this to work. We have to fill our universe with all sorts of objects that have never been observed and believe in them in order to keep this theory set working.
These guys ignore the EM force which is 10^39 times stronger than gravity. These guys ignore the plasma that fills space. These guys ignore the evidence that is all around us of the electrical universe. The mod down anybody who speaks up on slashdot. In university they destroy careers of those who speak up. These guys are religious zelots who destroy heritics.
Good Science would listen for a change. It would also follow the scientific method and throw out a theory set that is so flawed that it requires these exotic patches as does special relativity. To be fair here the guys have some fact and some reality and some data that is valuable. I don't throw out good things. It is just time for Special Relativity to be sent to the Phlogisten and Phrenology pile. It isn't right.
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