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Do We Need to Rewrite General Relativity?

A vocal minority of physicists are working to modify Einstein’s theory of gravity.

Do We Need to Rewrite General Relativity?

 

The apostles of the Big Bang creation account can't avoid appeals to the miraculous any more than could Moses when writing Genesis.

"Cosmology is not even astrophysics: all the principal assumptions in this field are unverified (or unverifiable) in the laboratory."

Big bang beliefs busted - creation.com

 

In GPS, the data clearly shows that the Special Relativity model does NOT correctly describe what’s happening physically and specifically it cannot be used and is not used in GPS. An equation is used that looks like Special Relativity's time dilation equation, but it's used in a way that is inconsistent with Special Relativity and instead consistent with Lorentz Relativity. Because the equation that is used looks like Special Relativity's time dilation equation, some still erroneously claim that Special Relativity is used in GPS. The physics of GPS' clocks is outside the domain of Special Relativity. Special Relativity is built on the constructs of relative velocity, relative kinetic energy, relativistic mass and observed time for observed clocks. However, to have a proper theory of what’s going on physically, including proper time accumulation, one needs the constructs of absolute velocity, absolute kinetic energy, absolute rest mass and proper time for all clocks.

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While other scientists tread softly around the edges of Einstein’s theory, hoping to tweak it into compliance, Barbour and a growing cadre of collaborators see a need for a bold march forward. They aim to demolish the space-time fabric that stands as Einstein’s legacy and remap the universe without it. This new cosmic code could eliminate the need to invoke dark matter and dark energy. Even more exciting, it could also open the door to the theory of quantum gravity that Einstein was never able to derive. If Barbour is right, some of the most fundamental things cosmologists think they know about the origin and evolution of the universe would have to be revised.

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