On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*> So if we have two labs, one atop a mountain and another on the Earth's > surface, will they measure different half-lifes? AG * *Of course they will! One will detect muons that were produced when cosmic ray protons hit air molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere and are moving at near the speed of light; if it wasn't for time dilation caused by their very high speed no muons would be detected by that guy on the mountain at all because the muons would've all decayed before they reached him. But the guy in the lab is measuring the half-life of muons that he had just made that were not moving, or were moving very slowly, relative to him.* > *>> A good theory should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. Newton > couldn't explain or predict that starlight passing near the sun will be > bent by 1.75 arcseconds or that Mercury's orbit would precess by 43 > arcseconds per century or that gravity could produce a redshift. But > Einstein could. * > > > *>What do you think you've established? That GR is superior to NM? We > already knew that! But what we don't understand about gravity is truly mind > boggling, but only for those with imagination. AG* > *So I'm supposed to believe that your confusion is the result of your vast intelligence? * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* &#( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2k%2B3y8H75_QALOd%2BvtX_KK8XkkL0p7dXZNCW7yzxccfg%40mail.gmail.com.
