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100 years of general relativity

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I certainly learnt a couple things about general relativity from that article (e.g. the "modern view" (meaning largely, the view from string theory) that "we understand Einstein's equations just as the equations of an "effective field theory""), although it was way over my head.

That blog (Luboš Motl's) has an amazingly large number of long and technical or topical articles on physics. I found this one on Boltzmann and thermodynamics especially insightful and relatively non-technical:

http://motls.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/ludwig-boltzmann-birthda...

When I took the basic physics sequence at MIT 40 years ago Special Relativity was a first semester elective and General Relativity in the seventh semester. You can derive much of SR with high school algebra and additional integration. But the GR field equations were rather hairy.

Is anyone else being directed to an ad page that when you click on 'Go to Site' it directs to another ad site?

I admire the general theory of relativity, the theory of gravitation and the field equations. Einstein proofed this way equality of inertial and gravitational mass, in my view his biggest merit. - But I can't understand why still today physicists allow to mess the beauty of the field equations by applying it to the universe as a whole. - It's wrong to apply the field equations cosmologically, as I have shown here: http://ow.ly/MrQgy#einstein_was_wrong

Wow, it's like timecube for a new generation.

I just checked on wikipedia what time cube is. - You are right, my theses would be more fun (and more successful) when I could be more relaxed and dada - I'm indeed grimly..

It wasn't a compliment.

Don't feed the trolls, they'll only come back for more.

Come on!

Not nearly as many font faces and colors.

Give the guy some credit.

People that claim Einstein was wrong should spend more time submitting their scientific papers for peer review and less time writing blog posts about it.

Ask Stalin for a peer review while you call him a dictator. Good luck.

Einstein's ideas went against the orthodoxy of his time.

Of course, Einstein had facts and logic on his side.

The other responses are being incredibly polite here (including on your past comments). I read your PDF - http://vixra.org/abs/1404.0435

You start 2.4 with the words "I am not a mathematician. I do not fully understand the Einstein field equations." You can start the whole article with "I am not a physicist. I do not understand physics."

Then we can put the 30-100 hours you spent writing these 6 pages into a context: although you're doing something, it's "not even the same sport" as Physics.

It's like training in how to beat Usain Bolt in the Olympic sprint (he's a runner), without moving from your kitchen table. Whatever you're doing at your kitchen table, it's not even the same sport!

Your writing is much more interesting than most religious writing or many types of fiction. If you enjoy this style of provocative writing, making statements like "moving faster than the speed of light isn't a big deal" (2.7) I suggest you spend this time writing science fiction.

If you include a plot and some characters, you might find an interested readership. It also seems you have some interest in history - you could even make it a historical science-fiction fantasy novel about how the second world war could have happened differently if humanity discovered some totally different laws.

good luck, you clearly have a lot of creativity, I hope you find a better outlet for it.

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