Who is he? If you can’t go that far, what kind of scientist is he?
Read this.
Respond in 5 sentences or less (for everyone’s benefit).
Awesome!
I love Brian Greene; I have read both The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Elegant Universe a couple times each, and will probably read them both again at some point.
I can totally see him being able to pull off a non-mathematics-centric program such as this, because both those books are basically exactly doing same. The problem, I think, for people like mythoughts who apparently have zero understanding of mathematics as a language, is that some mathematics comprehension is inherently required in order to grasp special relativity and the infinity to which it opens the door, even on an anecdotal level.
And just to be clear, I haven’t read more than a few words of any post mythoughts has made.
I’m just assuming this is a person who wants some free physics instruction because they just. don’t. get it.
Nope, it’s someone who wants to educate the world about the TRUTH because we just. don’t. get it.
But he can’t do math.
And therefore, it’s not trustworthy, and we shouldn’t be allowed to use it either.
Do you know who else used math?
i think maybe it’s too much or maybe it’s not enough.
Sticking with the baby steps, we had this exchange:
Your answer was ‘no’, so we need to understand our different conclusions here to make any further progress. Toward that…
The ‘light clock’ argument is the classical way to demonstrate the above consequence. You say that this argument is “actually a disproof of the constancy of the speed of light mascaraing as proof of time dilation.” Can you explain this further? It is not obvious to me where the logic of the light clock thought-experiment breaks down.
NO! This right here is the core of your problem. Special Relativity is based on the *observation *that every observer *does *experience light moving at C, irrespective of the velocity of the emitter and the observer.
The *how *is irrelevant, given that the *what *is true. The universe does not seem to care whether or not you find it intuitive or not. *Any *theory of physics that is proposed after 1908 *must *have at its core the fact that all observers will measure light moving at C.
Once you grasp that fact, you can start to understand Special Relativity. Leave General Relativity alone until you understand SR.
That’s already been pointed out a few times - I know I mentioned it once. It doesn’t seem to penetrate.
I realize these questions probably won’t get answered by mythougths any more than they have in the past, but for some reason banging my head against the message board is slightly less painful than banging it against the wall.
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Why is it so important to you that you prove relativity wrong?**
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Why is it that you feel that your interpretation of the laws of physics are more informed than are those of the thousands of physicists out there who have studied for decades and the issue and actually can do the math?**
** Do you think that you are the only person out of all of those brilliant minds who has considered the gedanken experiments you are proposing? **
Please don’t use the excuse that they would but they’re views are being suppressed by the scientific community. Just a few years ago some scientists made a huge splash by presenting experimental results that neutrinos seemed to move faster than light. As it happened they eventually discovered a glitch in their equipment, but until then their results were considered seriously (albeit skeptically), and no move was made to suppress them.
Higher physics indicates that the universe works in unusual and highly unintuitive ways. There are several times that in thinking of these things I come up with something that seems contradictory. However my response to such wouldn’t be to come to the dope to prove that I was right and the entire physics community was wrong, it would be to come to the dope to have people who understand the subject much better than I do explain why I was wrong and how the theory handles my counter example. If their explanations went over my head I would either try to educate myself to a level that would allow me to follow their explanations or else just accept that there were things that were just over my head and that I was just going to have to accept. You need to accept that one can not be an expert in every field. Even the most brilliant rocket scientist goes to a doctor for a medical diagnosis. I am sure that you have other skills and areas of knowledge, but until you spend some time buckling down and learning mathematics, physics won’t be one of them.
Whilst I share your frustration with mythoughts lack of debating, I think there’s a better question to ask him.
(After all proving relativity wrong leads to a Nobel prize 
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Mythoughts, you propose thought experiments to overturn current scientific theory.
Fair enough.
But although you have not done any of these experiments in real life, you confidently predict the results.
How can you be sure your predictions are correct?!
D’uh… he’s done the math.
Wait, no…
I wonder if the admins would let me buy a custom title for mythoughts, consisting of that link.
Some guy at Stormfront who didn’t like SR cos Einstein’s a Jew?
I know when I’m proving science wrong I like to know someone at Stormfront has my back.
Now, now – let’s be fair.
Stormfront moved that thread out of their Science forum before it hit double-digit replies.
I am a therapist. I don’t know the math. I do know monomaniacal insistence that ‘my beliefs are true even in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence’ , eg “I understand the flaws in basic physics experiments better than any physics teacher that ever lived”, screaming walls of text with Great Big Letters, and similar phenomenon.
Any yet you describe yourself as a physicist, who cannot do the math, and insist it is Very Important that we attend to your breakthrough!
I can’t be arsed to look carefully at the timing of all your posts throughout this thread the and related ones, but I wonder if you are experiencing a decreased need for sleep, lots of great energy, or any other disturbances in your usual routines? Does the word *grandiose *suggest anything to you? Is there any significant mental illness in your biological family, or have you been using substances?