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Einstein's Mistake

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Posted by Aurino C Souza on August 9, 2002 12:44:58 UTC

Hi Alan,

I believe Einstein's only mistake was to assume people would refrain from commenting on his theory without first trying to understand it. I've been guilty of that sin myself, but I'm always happy to learn something.

" Dr. Dick has given specific logical demonstration of Einstein's alleged mistake: theories derived from his geometry allegedly produce absurd (as in logically contradictory) result: time travel; and dubious results: tacheons "

Time travel is not only not absurd, it has actually been proved empirically. Get yourself inside a rocket, speed away very fast, and voila: upon returning to earth you'll find your wristwatch marked less time than all earth-based watches. You have just traveled to the earth's future!

The only real issue here is that Dick says clocks don't measure time, he says they measure proper time. Fine, so be it. Then "proper-time travel" becomes possible. But it's my impression that physicists are not too concerned about semantics (although I think they should be, if laypeople like you and I are supposed to understand what they are talking about)

As for tachyons, check this out:

http://www.csicop.org/sb/9409/reality.html

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