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Topic started on 31-10-2009 @ 07:03 PM by berenike
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Quote from Daily Mail article:
Racing across the Universe for the last 7.3-billion-years, two highly charged particles have arrived at Nasa's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within
a second of one another. Excited scientists believe this could be evidence of Einstein's space-time theory.
The photons were launched on their marathon during a short gamma-ray burst, an outpouring of radiation likely generated by the collision of two
neutron stars, the densest known objects in the Universe.
One of the photons possessed a million times more energy that the other but they arrived at almost the same time.
"In this illustration, one photon (purple) carries a million times the energy of another (yellow). Some theorists predict travel delays for
higher-energy photons. Yet Fermi data failed to show this effect"
Link to full article:
www.dailymail.co.uk...
Link to Nasa site:
www.nasa.gov...
Quote:
On May 10, 2009 a pair of gamma-ray photons reached the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope only 900 milliseconds apart after traveling for 7 billion
years. Fermi’s measurement gives us rare experimental evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has shut the door on several
approaches to gravity where space-time is foamy enough to interfere strongly with light.
Credit: NASA/GSFC
(A video is included on the Nasa site).
Another article:
news.stanford.edu...
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 07:18 PM by sphinx551
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I have question though.
Would this go against Everett's model of many worlds or simply parallel universes?
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 07:28 PM by berenike
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Er... let's hope someone can give you an answer.
I'll confess here that I know very little of this sort of thing. I saw the article and thought it might interest people here.
I was surprised that no-one else had found it and posted it, so I'm just hoping that it's the right sort of thing to post in this forum.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 07:47 PM by EnlightenUp
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I seem to recall there was also a more recent case where travel delays for higher energy photons was actually observed, delays of minutes IIRC.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 08:33 PM by kingoftheworld
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Thats pretty damn cool. I think that Einstein had help from extraterrestrials because his theories were way ahead of his time.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 08:52 PM by broli
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Originally posted by kingoftheworld
Thats pretty damn cool. I think that Einstein had help from extraterrestrials because his theories were way ahead of his time.
Maybe you should do your research properly. Here's one hint:
www.aulis.com...
If you want to give credit to a true genius read about Tesla. If it wasn't for the greed and corruption of some individuals we would be visiting
other stars.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 08:56 PM by joebooker
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 09:16 PM by BuffaloJoe
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Originally posted by broli
Maybe you should do your research properly. Here's one hint:
www.aulis.com...
Are you saying a typical scholastic attempt at research would guide you to this site?
That's a pretty offensive response to someone's thoughts. Can you offer proof that none of those scientists that Einstein "plagerized" were
influenced by anyone else? Of course not.
This is what scientists do, they do research that includes reviews of peers work. Once in awhile, you get someone who can tie it all together - this
is not plagiarism. Einstein provided the push needed to move the world forward past the stumbling blocks that were at that point hypothesis at best.
Einstein made it law.
I guess you would say the same of Stephen Hawkings since he spent his life reading other's work to aid his understanding of the universe.
Anyone who makes the statement you made in your post doesn't have a good understanding how scientific research works, are anti-semetic, or simply
jump on the bandwagon way too often.
If you'd like to do that research yourself, see if you can tie the Special Relativity effects and Lorentz transformations together on your own.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 09:20 PM by Le Colonel
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I have a question for the scientists.
How do you know the particles left at the same moment. couldnt one have come from another event, from another gamme ray burst, and just happened to
be travelling beside each other? I am no scientist, so I was just wondering. Seeing one event is not enough to close the book.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 09:21 PM by berenike
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Originally posted by BuffaloJoe
If you'd like to do that research yourself, see if you can tie the Special Relativity effects and Lorentz transformations together on your own.
Ummm... you'd need the String Theory for that, right? Yep, that's a pun
Let's play nicely,kids.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 11:31 PM by Astyanax
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Breaking a self-imposed silence to say: well spotted, and many thanks for alerting ATS.
'Tired light' is dead--not that any scientifically literate person ever thought it was alive. A sad day for Young Earth Creationists and
electric-universe fantasists, a rare red-letter day for rationality on ATS.
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reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 11:35 PM by Astyanax
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Gamma-ray bursts are not very frequent, and rather hard to miss while they're happening.
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reply posted on 1-11-2009 @ 05:21 AM by broli
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Maybe you haven't noticed but to date special and general relativity are called THEORIES not laws. And that still doesn't change the fact that
Einstein did not include a single reference in his paper.
Your so called science has taken a stray path for the past 100 years and that's nothing to be proud of. Like I said before if you want the prime
example of science look up Tesla and read his lectures. Einstein has got nothing on that man yet the only line I can find in my physics books is "the
unit of magnetic strength is named after Nikola Tesla."
What I find offensive is the fact that Tesla and most of his big inventions are lost while the atomic bomb is more popular than ever. Tesla knew what
we was saying when he didn't agree with Einsteins stolen formulas, because he had the experiments to prove them wrong. But did anyone listen? I guess
not.
100 years later and we're still on the stray path.
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reply posted on 1-11-2009 @ 06:35 PM by XTexan
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What were these experiments that proved him wrong? Just asking because if they exist then they can be recreated...
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reply posted on 2-11-2009 @ 11:54 AM by Arbitrageur
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Originally posted by Astyanax
reply to post by berenike
Breaking a self-imposed silence to say: well spotted, and many thanks for alerting ATS.
'Tired light' is dead--not that any scientifically literate person ever thought it was alive. A sad day for Young Earth Creationists and
electric-universe fantasists, a rare red-letter day for rationality on ATS.
Good to see you posting Astyanax, ATS is only as rational as the posts that people contribute so thanks for breaking your self-imposed silence to add
some rationality to a site that can use some.
I agree tired light never made much sense but it's nice to see some more confirmation nonetheless.
@Broli, note that BuffaloJoe has a point. How can you post a link in the science section that claims the moon photos were faked as a source? Links
like that belong in the conspiracy section, not the science section. I don't claim to be a relativity expert, however scientists do study each
others' work so the originality of any idea can always be examined, however I think Einstein abandoned the ether concept in special relativity which
Poincaré who he supposedly plagiarized from did not abandon the ether concept in his scientific writings.
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