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97 year old found flaws with Einsteins Theory.of R
I work for a 97 year old.He is amazingly bright...well I think so.Over the last few weeks he has been scrawling equations which look mindboggling to me,onto paper in his office.He used to teach Physics...and told me that he is refining what he discovered many years ago...that there is a flaw in The theory od Relativity.
At the time ,he wrote to someone he respected with his findings......but got no acknowledgement......even after chasing it up....so he gave up.
How can I help him find someone who will listen to him or read his paper to see if it hold any water...
At 97......I think he should be heard....you should see his eyes light up when he told me all about it!!
Where do I go,or to whom????
At the time ,he wrote to someone he respected with his findings......but got no acknowledgement......even after chasing it up....so he gave up.
How can I help him find someone who will listen to him or read his paper to see if it hold any water...
At 97......I think he should be heard....you should see his eyes light up when he told me all about it!!
Where do I go,or to whom????
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't think it's likely that he'll have found a significant flaw.
Relativity ( is it special or general There are two types?) has been so well tested - General relativity was needed to correctly explain the orbit of Mercury, it is seen in "gravitational lensing" by astronomers and is needed to correctly operate your sat nav.
Special relativity is tested to the extreme in atom smashers ike CERN. If there was a fundamental flaw in it it would have shown up by now.
Don't get me wrong it's not perfect - it doesn't properly agree when you try to make it work at very small scales with Quantum Mechanics so there are changes needed to both of these to make them work nicely together.
Thing is there's a long history of retired "semi-qualified" people spending their time convinced they have overthrown a major building block of science - often Maths.
Fermats last theorum used to be a particular favorite because it was so easy to understand - one maths professor said he used to get at least 1 letter a month from some retired general who'd "solved it" in his spare time.
Thing is he's now so "invested" in this idea that I can't imagine anything in the world will convince him he's wrong.
Telling any professional physicist that relativity is "wrong" is a little bit like telling them the Earth is flat.
I don't actually think you're dong him any favours if you get his hopes up.
Relativity ( is it special or general There are two types?) has been so well tested - General relativity was needed to correctly explain the orbit of Mercury, it is seen in "gravitational lensing" by astronomers and is needed to correctly operate your sat nav.
Special relativity is tested to the extreme in atom smashers ike CERN. If there was a fundamental flaw in it it would have shown up by now.
Don't get me wrong it's not perfect - it doesn't properly agree when you try to make it work at very small scales with Quantum Mechanics so there are changes needed to both of these to make them work nicely together.
Thing is there's a long history of retired "semi-qualified" people spending their time convinced they have overthrown a major building block of science - often Maths.
Fermats last theorum used to be a particular favorite because it was so easy to understand - one maths professor said he used to get at least 1 letter a month from some retired general who'd "solved it" in his spare time.
Thing is he's now so "invested" in this idea that I can't imagine anything in the world will convince him he's wrong.
Telling any professional physicist that relativity is "wrong" is a little bit like telling them the Earth is flat.
I don't actually think you're dong him any favours if you get his hopes up.
To be taken seriously it needs to be peer reviewed!
Look if he must he should talk to some people on physics forums like
http://www.physicsfor...forumdisplay.php?f=70
Look if he must he should talk to some people on physics forums like
http://www.physicsfor...forumdisplay.php?f=70
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