Inquiry into Scientific Claims By Rosewater49 I have been reading this book about space and time and

space-time and all that stuff and Ill have to admit that I have trouble with a lot of what is being described (this is supposed to be a book for laymen which word always confused me too). Anyway, let me start off by saying that I have a feeling that few people understand Einsteins theories and, furthermore, I have no way of knowing whether any of the claims in those theories are true. Its not like the theories are used in making bread or growing tomatoes, so most of us must rely on the say-so of those that are claiming to understand. The book I am reading discusses the limits or lack thereof of space. Some say space is infinite. Think about that. No end to something that is supposed to exist. Here is my question though; if space has no end that means there are an infinite number of stars, which begs the question, what if I add one more star? Well according to this book, that question has no meaning, even though it seems to make sense to me. So it would appear that these scientists can make any claim they want and we laymen have to just accept it due to our lack of brains. But if they can say your question has no meaning I guess they can also say space is infinite and we are supposed to nod our heads in confused but satisfied agreement. Well, I am here to say that I am not so easily convinced. How about the claim that space is curved? Talk about having no meaning. How can nothing be curved? When I look at the moon, is it really somewhere else, like behind a tree or on the other side of the earth, my eyesight being twisted and turned and worst of all FOOLED by curved space? If we cant put our faith in straight space, in what can we put our faith? How about black holes? Crimminy, these people make space seem like the most whacked-out and scary place around. I think they just want it all to themselves when we finally have to rocket into it as a result of our poor stewardship of planet earth. Getting back to black holes, these are supposed to be stars that run out of gas and collapse on themselves, forming a super dense thing, with colossal gravity, that wont let anything out, not even a speeding bullet. Why cant a star run out of gas and just disappear without it turning into something we cant imagine and would hate to meet in a dark alley. When I eat a piece of cake, the plate it was on doesnt start sucking in the table cloth and silverware and that kind of nightmare-on-elm-street stuff just because the cake is gone. No, it just sits there, empty. I put it in the dishwasher and never think about it again. I think scientists really have discovered that there really is nothing out there in space but more stuff like we already have, suns, planets, moons, and so on, but have realized that we wont continue funding research to look at more of the same thing. They have to make up this stuff about infinite and curved space, and black holes, the big bang, and what have you. I can see it now, every year at one of their conventions they talk in code (and they can do that since they are so danged smart) about coming up with a new theory that will captivate and scare the bejeebers out of us laypeople. They have a contest and pick the one they think will bring the highest amount of grant money. They dont have to

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Inquiry into Scientific Claims By Rosewater49 worry about us saying something like come on now, I dont believe that! because they will just say our comment has no meaning. You may be asking why I question these theories with such vigor. One reason is that when I heard that Einsteins theories predict that as you go faster, time slows down. Now I think we can all agree that this is something we all know is backwards. When was the last time you were hurrying around (moving faster) but ended being late for something? The answer, I think you will agree, is ALWAYS. If time slowed down wouldnt you get there early? How about when you move really slowly, does time speed up? Heck if I was to stand in one spot long enough would I age faster and faster? I have tried it and my wife says I look the same, not older. While this paper is about space and claims made by the elite educated class, I have to relate a recent experience of mine that I think proves part of my thesis. A friend of mine lives down the road from one of those high tech particle accelerators that you hear about on the Discovery channel. It is stated that these are huge donuts that have lots of magnets around them, where they somehow make particles race around faster and faster and faster. The particles are then made to hit something, and the scientists stand around admiring what happens. Sounds to me like a lot of money spent on things every kid likes, donuts, magnets, hitting things, standing around. But where is the product? I mean, what do they make with this stuff? My friend said lots and lots of trucks took stuff into that place when it was being built, but none have been leaving since it was built. Only cars with guys in white smocks come out. So unless they are transporting whatever they are making in their pants, like the dirt in the Great Escape, they are making nothing! My friends cousin, Joe, worked as a security guard at the particle accelerator facility and we asked him to find out some information about those particles and what was being made at the place. Well, apparently the scientists working at this particular place werent counting on a layman asking such penetrating questions, because these egg heads said they were making quarks, leptons, bosons, and other equally ridiculous sounding things. When Joe laughed at the scientists for being unable to make up better names for the imaginary product of this multi-billion dollar endeavor, one of the scientists mentioned something about particles flying up Joes butt. Joe said he laughed at this and assumed the guy was just being defensive and sarcastic, but he quit shortly thereafter just to be safe. With Joes departure I lost the source of any future research on particle accelerators but I think I know all I need to know. Getting back to space issues and how claims by scientists just dont seem to wash, I will provide another example. I think you will all agree this example is just about rock solid proof of the nonsense being perpetrated on us by the scientific community. You know how whenever you see a shooting star, you are told that it is really a meteor not a star? A meteor is supposed to be a big rock from space that wants to hit earth. However, most of them are supposed to burn up while streaking through our atmosphere (which is nothing but air). They say it burns because it is moving so fast through the air. Now, I

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Inquiry into Scientific Claims By Rosewater49 find it hard to believe that I might be the first one to debunk this popular myth, but let me describe a simple experiment I undertook. Last winter, on a cold still night, I went outside in my underwear and stood there for one minute. I got cold but it wasnt too bad. Then several nights later on an equally cold, but very windy night, I did the same thing. Let me tell you, 42 seconds was all I could stand; I ran back into the house and I was FREEZING. Let me say that againFREEZING, not burning up, not warm, but freezing. Now you may think I am jumping to conclusions but I took this experiment one step farther. This summer I took a fan out to my front porch on a calm very hot day and proceeded to sit there for 10 minutes with the fan turned off, well I was all aflush and sweating up a storm. Then, I took the daring step of turning on the fan. If one of those high falluttin scientist types had been there he would have been telling me how crazy I was; why, with the head start my body already had in being hot, this swiftly rushing air was sure to make me burst into flames. But guess what, I actually felt cooler almost immediately. But being thorough I didnt stop at that, I sat there for a full half hour, air blasting all around me, cool as a cucumber. I think we can now all agree that shooting stars are just thatshooting stars. Now again, I have to revert to some other non-space claim made by scientists that just dont hold water. You have probably heard that bats use sonar to locate and catch bugs for dinner. They supposedly have to use sonar because they are blind as bats. But I looked in the encyclopedia and it said that bats have been around for hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of years. Some of you navy types may get where I am headed with this by now. So bats have been around long before the twentieth century, huh? Well sonar was invented sometime around World War II, which was like midtwentieth century. So how were these bats supposed to have eaten before sonar was around? Wouldnt they have starved to death long ago? I think they would have, they would have been the dodo birds of the bat world, or something like that. All of this tends to make me question much of what is being taught in science class. For instance we all know that the earth is round right? We are all convinced right? Well I dare any one of you to prove it. The ancients thought the earth was flat and I think I can make a good case that it really is flat, and you laypeople will be able to understand it too, which is what we all want, right? For one thing, if the earth was round wouldnt simple things like carpenters levels be curved instead of flat? Another thing, as the earth curved away into the distance, people supposedly on the sides of the round earth, would have to lean up, toward the north pole, until eventually they would be laying on the ground. And, what about people that are under the earth? Try explaining that to your five-year old. One of the proofs of the round earth theory was offered by early day big-thinkers that were experienced in ocean travel. They suggested the roundness is explained by the fact that as a ship sails off toward the horizon; the ship appears to sink to the point where it eventually disappears. But the reason for this is due to a phenomenon that everyone is aware of. Ever notice that the farther away something is, the smaller it gets? Look out the window at a passing car and see how small it is, think you could get into a car that small? Youd be lucky to get your little toe into one of them. So the real explanation to

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Inquiry into Scientific Claims By Rosewater49 the ship conundrum is that, as the ship recedes, the waves in the foreground are much bigger than the ship, to the point that the ship appears to disappear. Now, this brings up an issue that I think explains the infinite universe story as well. If everything far away is smaller and smaller the farther away it is, dont you see what is happening? Everything is shrinking and shrinking to the point that everything could probably fit into your living room. This I take it is what Einstein was really getting at by relativity. Everything close is big and everything far away is small; so the sizes of things are relative to how far away they are. And, if you watch that car long enough, you will notice that it doesnt have to travel very far before you cant see it any more. Now I am not saying that car is really disappearing but it is getting so small that it is really hard to see. The practical aspects of this have been overlooked by everyone, and I am very surprised that the more enterprising among us havent figured it out. The problem, I suppose, is that long ago, before practical thought was very useful, people just went along with what scientists were telling them. People, refused to think about the things that were staring them in the face and only thought about building cars and TV sets and other things laypeople found useful. So people stopped thinking outside the box, if they ever did. That explains why so many of us think that overnight delivery of packages was such a big-deal idea. But, when you begin to open up your mind and apply practical thought to Relativity, you begin to realize the opportunities that await the world of business. If things far away are so small, why not load, say one hundred new cars, into a shoe box and put it one of those overnight delivery flights. Why, you could load the plane with a whole passel of shoe boxes, filled with all kind of useful things, and the cost of transportation would become almost insignificant. Now, some of you quick thinkers may ask, Wouldnt the plane shrink the farther away it got like the shoe boxes full of cars?" The answer, of course, is yes and the solution would be to build really big planes, to overcome the effects of relativity. This would probably require some experimentation to determine the most optimal distance between the plane and the boxes to be really economical, but it can be done and is only a matter of stick-to-it-ness. Finally, lets look at gravity. I can believe some of the claims about it, but not all of them. For instance, Newton developed the theory of gravity that says massive bodies attract other massive bodies. While this does seem to explain those groups of fat girls we see at beaches and at McDonalds, the theory also says the farther apart these massive bodies are the less attractive they become. Well now, see, this I cant accept, because I find that the opposite is true; the farther away a fat chick is the MORE attractive she is, due to the fact that she is smaller (see above explanation), and maybe even more importantly, harder to see. But, again, on the other hand, Wal-Marts are big massive places and they sure do attract a lot of fat people from far away, so that makes it two to one on the proof list. Further thought seems to be in order.

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