What an honor to grant this 99 year old’s wish to fly again. Beverly was one of the 1st female pilots to serve in the military. WASPS weren’t recognized as veterans until the 70s, largely due to gender discrimination. See her story 8:15, 10:30 Monday morning on #ktla@KTLA
@CalltoActivism Thank you so much for pointing out Karoline that I would much sooner welcome (and trust) an illegal alien (Republican, Dem, or Other) as my friend, constituent, and comrade without any problem. Whereas, the Trump administration and its Stepford wife staff is not welcome ever.
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All three of the above theories—Einstein, Dicke-Brans-Jordan, Ni—were viable in the summer of 1971, when this section was written. But in autumn 1971 Ni's theory, and many other theories that had been regarded as viable, were proved by Nordtvedt and Will (1972) to disagree with experiment. This is an example of the rapidity of current progress in experimental tests of gravitational theory!
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Notice that in all these “trials by combat” against the searing fires of observation and experiment, it is Einstein's general relativity that has consistently withstood the tests, like Daniel striding through the fiery furnace!
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No theory more resembles Maxwell's electrodynamics in its simplicity, beauty, and scope than Einstein's geometrodynamics. Few principles in physics are more firmly established than those on which it rests: the local validity of special relativity (Chapters 2-7), the equivalence principle (Chapter 16), the conservation of momentum and energy (Chapters 5, 15 and 16), and the prevalence of second-order field equations throughout physics (Chapter 17). Those principles and the demand for no “extraneous fields” (e.g., Dicke's scalar field) and “no prior geometry” (§17.6) lead to the conclusion that the geometry of spacetime must be Riemannian and the geometrodynamic law must be Einstein's.
To say that the geometry is Riemannian is to say that the interval between any two nearby events C and D, anywhere in spacetime, stated in terms of the interval AB between two nearby fiducial events, at quite another point in spacetime, has a value CD/AB independent of the route of intercomparison (Chapter 13 and Box 16.4). There are a thousand routes. By this hydraheaded prediction, Einstein's theory thus exposes itself to destruction in a thousand ways (Box 16.4).
Geometrodynamics lends itself to being disproven in other ways as well. The geometry has no option about the control it exerts on the dynamics of particles and fields (Chapter 20). The theory makes predictions about the equilibrium configurations and pulsations of compact stars (Chapters 23-26). It gives formulas (Chapters 27-29) for the deceleration of the expansion of the universe, for the density of mass-energy, and for the magnifying power of the curvature of space, the tests of which are not far off. It predicts gravitational collapse, and the existence of black holes, and a wealth of physics associated with these objects (Chapters 31-34). It predicts gravitational waves* (Chapters 35-37). In the appropriate approximation, it encompasses all the well-tested predictions of the Newtonian theory of gravity for the dynamics of the solar system, and predicts testable post-Newtonian corrections besides, including several already verified effects (Chapters 38-40).
No inconsistency of principle has ever been found in Einstein's geometric theory of gravity. No purported observational evidence against the theory has ever stood the test of time. No other acceptable account of physics of comparable simplicity and scope has ever been put forward.
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*Subsequent detection and verification of gravitational waves gave author Kip Thorne his shared 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
(Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, _Gravitation_, 1973, W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco; pp. 1066-1068, 1199)
@MichaelEMcNeil This being said, I would prefer not to comment at this time, based on my self-inconsistency theory which has never failed to be consistently inconsistent.
@adrianew65@JoJoFromJerz To say something is fundamentally wrong with one's psyche is to imply that the first guy to eat peanuts didn't like the crunchy texture. The fundamentals here tend to favor the psyche of those who want their peanut butter to taste more like peanuts and less like butter.
@ZaleskiLuke My heart goes out to all those who suffered the ultimate sacrifice as a result of this tragedy. I'm not sure where I feel Trump should be (prison, North Korea, etc), but I do believe he should be held responsible to some degree and only a trial can determine this properly.