Re: The Einstein Effect

On 11/01/2025 4:53 am, Don wrote:

Jeroen Belleman wrote:

john larkin wrote:

Don wrote:

john larkin wrote:

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https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/einstein-and-adam-grant-agree-the-puzzle-principle-will-make-you-instantly-smarter/91102339
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Cohen's book looks interesting, so I ordered it.
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I'm now reading Gleick's short biography of Isaac Newton, who was a
very weird guy.

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Einstein loved the sound of his own metaphysical bark and wasn't above
fudging the score:
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<https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/58/9/43/399405/Einstein-Versus-the-Physical-Review-A-great>
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Regardless, my followup isn't about this thread's titular Einstein.
It's about Newton.
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     "Did you know? It was AYABHATA & not Newton or (sic) Leibniz who
     first developed Calculus"
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     <https://x.com/Aelthemplaer/status/1874573331330167032>

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Seems to me that if gravity has finite velocity, there have to be
gravitational waves.
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Yes, and if there are gravitational waves, there must be quantization
effects. Where waves and matter interact, quantization occurs. The
scale of the phenomena, both in time and in size, may make it hard
to recognize it as such though.
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That said, there are plenty of examples of quantization effects in
the behaviour of objects in our solar system. Orbital resonances,
tidal locking, Trojans, what else?.
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Come to think of it, when a star gets ejected at high speed from a
star cluster, as sometimes happens,  isn't that in some way similar
to the decay of a radioactive atom?

 For what it's worth, both the photoelectric effect in Einstein's
equation and Millikan's measurement make perfect sense to me. Although
light with weight works with me, things begin to become unworkable
with Schrödinger and Einstein's field equations.

Schroedinger's and Einstein's field equation are both perfectly workable representations of reality. They wouldn't have become widely accepted if they weren't. If you can't get them to work for you, you probably need to sign up for a university course to improve your skills.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney