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Journalist inhaling too much Ether?Posted by Tjin on the 21st November, 2008 |
There’s this article being posted on various news sites about Einstein’s E=mc^2 finally being proven right.
I’m no scientist. In fact, I haven’t taken a science class since high school*, but this article kinda gives me the shits. Especially the title: “Einstein’s e=mc2 proven after 103 years“. It makes it sound like this was all up in the air until the other day, which is bullshit. The article may be supposed to be positive, in fact the friend who sent me the link is generally not interested in this sort of thing, but it makes it seem like Einstein’s works are still in doubt; like Relativity (General and Special) being a Jewish conspiracy or that a Universal Aether may yet prove Einstein wrong.
From what I understand, Einstein’s mass-to-energy conversions have been confirmed over and over, in the measurement of mass loss from nuclear reactions, chemical reactions etc and the energy releases involved. Actually, the article itself says that it’s only at a sub-atomic scale that this is a new confirmation, but that doesn’t mean that all other observational data and evidence doesn’t count. Even if at those scales Einstein’s predictions were wrong, it wouldn’t have meant that Einstein was. Just as Newton wasn’t wrong because General Relativity was more accurate, an “error” at this scale would have meant a modification of the theory and another step forward for science – especially seeing as we don’t yet have a unification of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
Now I can’t get to the paper that it’s reporting on since “Science” requires a paid subscription, so I can’t say what it is actually about, but I suspect that what it actually covers is a helluva lot more (and probably different) than that which the pop-article’s title and content actually implies.
*Therefore, I will he more than happy to be corrected on anything I’ve said here.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:31 am
Haha that’s so awesome that you say that, because after reading that same article this morning I went on a long rant about it to my little sister, who mostly sat there with a blank stare on her face. I mean seriously, why can’t we just move on and find something new to do?
November 24th, 2008 at 7:15 am
You grumpy fuck!! That’s the last time I send you a link.
If you’d paid any anttention in science class back in high school then you’d know that science is based around theory & hypothesis which cannot be proven. They can only be disproven.
I expected you to get into a rant, as you always do, but it should be around the ignorant writers use of the word “proven”.
P.S. You repeated a comic again. One more time and it’s a hat trick and you buy the next round.
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