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From Twitter https://twitter.com/drsekula: RT @APSPhysicsDC: Tell Congress science matters! Stop by the Contact Congress table. #apsapril #voice4physics https://twitter.com/APSPhysicsDC/status/825733679330820096/photo/1"
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What is your specific complaint? Your comment was vague and ill-formed. For instance, give me an example of something you think is not scientific, but which is widely considered to be supported by scientifically gathered evidence.
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Let's say that what you just said - for instance, space not warping and time not dilating - was true. In that case, it should have been possible to launch the global positioning satellite system (which I assume you use for navigation - if not, I am certain something you rely on uses it, given its modern ubiquity) and just uses the radio signals from the satellites, uncorr…
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Ok, well, there you can go ahead and ask any engineer that works on the design of these systems. I don't know what your training is, or what your profession is, but go ahead and find engineering information about GPS and you will see that you here very wrong here. That's extremely basic information about the GPS system. Since you're not being very open-minded in this con…
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Your provided reference is a non-scientific site. The author offers no real credentials. They are a poor source of information. Anyone can make a .com or .org site and say anything they want; avoid them as primary sources. Here, for instance, is a key bulletin that handset manufacturers are required to follow in order to make sure their handset receivers implement the 2n…
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Well, Einstein was just one of thousands of physicists in the 20th century who contributed small steps in understanding the universe, and of course tremendous progress was made. The laws of physics, which include Maxwell's Equations and Special Relativity (which, itself, includes Newton's Laws, and so is not separate from it), are known well enough to predict the behavior…
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As I said earlier, you clearly have some kind of world view or other thing that you are working to protect. I'm going to go back to being a practicing scientist, testing the natural world in the hopes of finding a better explanation for it, one that explains all that came before and predicts new things we can test. I recommend you go back to your work, too. I wish you wel…
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First, let's make sure we understand the big bang hypothesis:
1. The universe started out very small and, since matter and energy were compressed into a small volume, very hot.
2. The universe expanded with time, cooling in the process.
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Second, let's understand the early predictions of such an idea. 1. One should observe that very distant astronomical objects, corresponding to faint objects (e.g. because intensity falls off with distance), are moving away from us in any direction we look. Evidence: Edwin Hubble and others observed distant galaxies are all receding from us in every direction. Of cours…
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So, were those predictions verified? Yes. The light from the early universe was detected as microwaves in the 1960s, quite by accident. The properties of the microwave energy, measured very well in the early 1990s, corresponded to a universe with an average temperature of just about 3K. The relative abundance of Hydrogen and Helium is highly consistent with the predictio…
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That book relies on a wrong model for the speed of light. The author argues that you can assume that the speed of a source of light is added to the motion of light itself, increasing its speed. This flies in the face of evidence accumulated since the Michelson-Morley Experiments in the late 1880s, that demonstrated that the speed of light is independent of the motion of t…
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I love @Steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net's series of Physics-Lessons-in-a-Microblog
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@steve's, And, as you can imagine, it is difficult to do any kind of half-decent job in a format like this... especially since there are whole reliable textbooks devoted to the subject, so why bother with me. ;-) Anyway, I am trying but since I have other responsibilities in my life - a wife, a job, two cats, a book to write, three grad students to supervise, and MEETINGS…
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@axemansays, Einstein was Jewish, though not particularly devout; that's why he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 - the purge of "Jewish Academics" put his life at risk and he was brought to the US by colleagues at Princeton, where he remained the rest of his days. He actually refuted the big bang idea at the beginning because he felt it smacked too much of Biblical theology, but…
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Since you have crossed the line into anti-semitic commentary and have decided to revert to terrible name-calling, I'm done talking with you. Stay off my GS feed.
Stephen Sekula
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