Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton
By Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
(Died March 21, 1727)
NATURE and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
It did not last: the devil, shouting, “Ho.
Let Einstein be,” restored the status quo.
– J.C. Squire
I have written in the past for LewRockwell.com about concepts presented by “Electric Universe” theorists, which are at odds with the orthodoxy of current cosmology; one such example is what I believe is the fallacy of the existence of “Black Holes” that I discussed here in “The Black Hole in the Heart of Stephen Hawking.” Perhaps the primary cause of physics losing its way is the deification of Albert Einstein. In titling this piece “The Karl Marx of Physics,” I do not intend to characterize Einstein as a callous human being who totally misread human nature and is responsible for much suffering as Karl Marx was. However, in the “oxymoronic” concept, as Electric Universe theorist Wal Thornhill describes it, of the “thought experiment,” which is to say by thinking about how nature works instead of observing and experimenting, and introducing mathematics as the focus of cosmology and less so observation, in addition to the flawed theories of General Relativity and Special Relativity, Einstein’s work has resulted in a tremendous distortion of the nature of the cosmos and how nature truly acts. For in the words of Electrical Universe theorist Wallace Thornhill, “In real science cause and effect cannot be divorced. Einstein complained of quantum mechanics, ‘God doesn’t play dice with the world.’ But ever since students have been taught two unscientific philosophies that are mutually exclusive. Ironically, Einstein’s postulates stand in the way of understanding gravity, light, and quantum interactions in simple classical terms.”
Indeed, Einstein himself, as Wallace Thornhill concluded in the second part of his two part video series on Einstein, stated in a letter that was not revealed until long after he died, “You can imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether in general I am on the right track.”
In this statement of humility and insight, Einstein was finally correct about something, if only too late to correct the damage he had done. For as Thornhill notes, “Scientific understanding is provisional. It is a tactical error to declare someone a paragon of genius. In this error of peer censorship it stifles debate and dissent, which is essential for the advancement of science…It can halt progress….The simple fact is that [Einstein’s] theories make no physical sense.”
Consequently, I believe even the Electric Universe is not a complete description or explanation of the universe, although superior to current “scientistic” dogma. However, key tenets of Einstein’s theories have been disproven. In the first video entitled, “I am not Einstein,” from a quote by Einstein himself when confronted with the fanaticism of his followers, Thornhill shows that the speed of light is not a constant; this fact has been established by experiment. Posted at the time of the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s “General Theory of Relativity,” Thornhill asks in the video after the idolatrous coverage in the legacy media, “What really is there to celebrate? There have been no fundamental scientific breakthroughs in that time. Relativity and Quantum Theory remain as incompatible as ever. If Einstein was wrong we have wasted a century.”
And a recent experiment discredited his theory again, “with all loopholes in the experiment were closed.” Einstein disliked the concept in quantum physics of “spooky action at a distance” yet this “spooky action” has indeed been proven in these recent experiments; as Thornhill put it, “It is a profoundly important result because it confirms that there is a signaling system—a force—that connects separate bits of matter instantaneously. Einstein’s speed of light is not the barrier he postulated. The universe is a coherent, connected system. To progress once more, we must forget Einstein.
“It’s a thankless and supremely difficult task to question the long-held belief of authorities and there’s no stronger faith that Einstein was a genius of the highest order. We’re fed that story as early as primary school. The media builds it out incessantly. We are subject to indoctrination.”
The first postulate of Special Relativity is that “the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference. But orbiting planets and quantum experiments show that there is a real-time connection between widely separated matter in the universe. The fixed stars can be regarded as an absolute frame of reference, which returns us to classical physics and Ernst Mach’s principle that relates the motion of the local inertial frame to the distant stars…Einstein’s first postulate…is invalid.”
Similarly, when Einstein conducted a “thought experiment” that noted the feeling one gets when being pulled by gravity is equivalent to a person accelerating and “he dubbed this conjecture the ‘principle of equivalence.’ However, with an absolute frame of reference, they are not equivalent.” Nor does Einstein’s theory even begin to explain how gravity actually works. And the problem is applying mathematical principles to reality; while it might be correct mathematically to “label galactic time intervals ‘past, present and future’ but physically there is only now. The passage of time is universal when all matter is connected in real time. Time cannot be slowed or sped up. It is dimensionless. It has no arrow. There is no ‘space-time,’ no ‘fourth dimension.’ That the universe is a system connected effectively in real time—at least at a galactic scale—should never have been in dispute, since Newton’s law of gravity, which is derived from observations, is instantaneous. His well known equation doesn’t include time.”
Or as Thornhill has spoken in the past, “time is measured with a clock” while height, depth and length—the three dimensions—are measured with a ruler. Time is not equivalent to spatial dimensions at all.
Thornhill adds, “Observations show that the earth is drawn to the instantaneous position of the sun and not where it appears in the sky eight minutes later.” And Thornhill points out that Einstein booster Arthur Eddington in his book Space, Time and Gravitation “he notes that if gravity propagated with finite velocity, the motion of the planets around the sun would become unstable, due to a torque acting on the planets. The problem was already known to Newton and examined by Laplace, who calculated a value far faster than the speed of light.” Consequently, Einstein’s theory has no bearing on cosmic reality, just on earthbound observers jumping on or off trains or airplanes.
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