Le 29/12/2024 à 18:56, Python a écrit :
Le 29/12/2024 à 16:52, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
That's how it works in physics: an idiot is
mumbling about pears growing on a willow -
and his obedient doggies are preparing some
new, better definitons of pears and willows.
No. This is not how it works.
Yes, yes.
That's how it works.
Physicists try to adapt their theories to what is experimentally
observable.
For example, the advance of Mercury's perihelion.
The same goes for the deviation of the position of stars during solar
eclipses, and even there, we had to lower our pants to stick to reality.
Einstein had to do it twice to make his theory stick to reality.
Then we said "Ah! What luck! The deviation predicted by Einstein during
the second eclipse was correct".
Except that in the meantime, he had many months to reframe his results
(double those of the first eclipse).
It goes without saying that the results of the first eclipse were never publicly known, and that it was said, don't laugh friends: "The
photographs of the first eclipse could never be taken, because if the
weather was very nice that day, the sky suddenly became overcast at the
time of the eclipse".
Oh shit...
What is disgusting, but always, always, always, human nature will take precedence, is that on one side you have Albert Einstein who copies
Poincaré and Hilbert, then makes his predictions AFTER the events
(mercury, solar eclipse) while Hachel makes them BEFORE (radial
contraction of a relativistic disk, instantaneous transfers of
longitudinal information, proper time of uniformly accelerated objects).
But always, the idiot is Hachel, and always the God is Albert.
All this is unscientific and veers into sordid religiosity.
R.H.
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