-Caveat Lector- This is why science isn't religion.
See if it were a religion, anyone speaking against st.. Einstein would be burned as a heretic. The holy book would be proclaimed complete, and no revision would be allowed. The point of science is revision. Anyone who thinks science claims to know the facts as 100% true, and complete, does not understand science. The point of religion is stasis. Faith that the book is complete as is. A big stick to explain the completeness, to anyone daring enough to disagree. on 3/21/02 9:06 PM, Party of Citizens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Truth is Stranger than Fact > Einstein's Theory Of Relativity Must Be Rewritten > > By Jonathan Leake > Science Editor > The Sunday Times - London ~ 9-9-1 > > A group of astronomers and cosmologists has warned that > the laws thought to govern the universe, including Albert > Einstein's theory of relativity, must be rewritten. > > The group, which includes Professor Stephen Hawking and > Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, say such laws may > only work for our universe but not in others that are now > also thought to exist. > > "It is becoming increasingly likely that the rules we had > thought were fundamental through time and space are actually > just bylaws for our bit of it," said Rees, whose new book, Our > Cosmic Habitat, is published next month. "Creation is > emerging as even stranger than we thought." > > Among the ideas facing revision is Einstein's belief that the > speed of light must always be the same - 186,000 miles a > second in a vacuum. There is growing evidence that light > moved much faster during the early stages of our universe. > > Rees, Hawking and others are so concerned at the impact of > such ideas that they recently organised a private conference > in Cambridge for more than 30 leading cosmologists. > > Cosmology - the study of the origins and future of our > universe - became popular in the early 20th century for > physicists who wanted to think the unthinkable about > creation. > > Einstein's theory of relativity, which describes how > gravity controls the behaviour of our universe, was one of > cosmology's greatest triumphs. But Einstein said there was > an even deeper issue, which he described as whether God had > any choice. In other words, could the laws that governed the > way our universe formed after the big bang have worked any > differently? He concluded that they could not. > > In the past 40 years, however, the increasing power of > astronomical instruments has turned cosmology from a > theoretical science into a practical one and forced scientists to > re-examine Einstein's conclusions. Among the most striking > claims is that our universe only exists because of a fine > balance between several crucial factors. > > One is the rate at which nuclear fusion releases energy in > stars such as the sun by squashing hydrogen atoms into > helium and then other elements. Astronomers have found > that exactly 0.7% of the mass of the hydrogen is converted > into starlight and that if this figure had been just a fraction > different then carbon and other elements essential to life > could never have formed. > > Another puzzle is the so-called "smoothness" of our universe, > by which astronomers mean the distribution of matter and > radiation. In theory, the big bang could have produced a > universe where all the matter clumped together into a few > black holes, or another in which it was spread out evenly, > forming nothing but a thin vapour. "It could be that the > laws that govern our universe are unchangeable but it is a > remarkable coincidence that these laws are also exactly what > is needed to produce life," said Rees. "It seems too good to > be true." > > What he, Hawking and others such as Neil Turok, professor > of maths and physics at Cambridge, are now looking at is > the idea that our universe is just one of an infinite number > of universes, with different laws of nature operating in each. > > Some universes would have all their matter clumped together > into a few huge black holes while others would be nothing > more than a thin uniform freezing gas. > > However, Hawking and his colleagues increasingly disagree > over how this "multiverse" could work. At the conference > Hawking dismissed the idea of a series of big bangs on the > grounds that it extended into the infinite past and so could > never have a beginning. > > http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/ -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - ----- -- --- -- - - - ---- - -- - - - -- ---- -- - -- - The police aren't here to create disorder, they are here to preserve disorder. 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