SamTherapy opened this issue on Sep 22, 2011 · 64 posts
A_C_C posted Fri, 23 September 2011 at 11:41 AM
Quote - > Quote - Which shows, kawecki, that your knowledge of physics is quite flawed.
Do you think ? Academic scientific knowledge is something very strange, probably beyond my capabilities of comprehension.
Faraday's homopolar generator violates Einstein't Theory of Relativity, so such abomination cannot exist. If you apply the famous electromagnetism Maxwell's equations as are taught today, such thing cannot work. But if you take a school book any electrical technician can prove that the homopolar generator do work with only basic arithmetic operations and so, we have soldering machines and even Reagan's star war lasers.
Einstein is a myth, his Theory of Relativity is so advanced that only few initiates can understabd. Well, his second theory, the General Theory of Relativity, yes indeed it is, but it is very rarely mentioned. On the other side, his first theory and the most famous and comented one, the Special Theory of Relativity, contrary to all believe and myths, is very simple. You need not to be a genius, everyone with basic knowledge in mathematics and physics can underatnd it without any problem. It can be taught in schools, but if is done, what will happen to the myth ?
Are you familiar with the Michelson-Morley experiment and the Lorentz transformations? That's where the speed limit of the Theory of Relativity comes.
Besides, there is something else that you should consider before you start ranting against the so called stablishment. The physics are well aware that the theory of Relativity is not the theory to end all theories. It works well in macro scale, but starts to breaks off as we reach atomic size of smaller, and there is no way that both relativity and quantum theory are both correct. And the predictions extracted from both theories had been checked several times.
So what will happen if this is a real violation of the theory, and not an instrumental error, or something else? Eventually somebody will develop a new theory to encompass that data, with Einstein Theory of Relativity as an special case, such as Newtonian gravitation and mechanics is now considered an special case of Relativity. The predictions that we we'll get from taht new theory will be checked, and maybe, maybe in the future, we'll get FTL drives, but probably they're not gonna look like anything that we have seen in sci-fi.