Re: A Boot to Physics' Head

Posted by
Uncle Al on Jun 02, 2002 at 20:02
(68.5.243.16)

Re: A Boot to Physics' Head (Dogrock)

Test mass composition is proven irrelevant to its free-fall path through spacetime. There are some geometries of atomic arrangements (i.e., crystal lattices) that cannot be reconciled,

chirality and parity.

There was no way to calculate the degree of geometric parity of the arrangement of atoms in a crystal. Now there is, courtesy of mathematician Michel Petitjean. The exposition that is testing the Equivalence Principle is annotated historical background plus the new stuff. It says that left-handed and right-handed crystals may not fall identically. They will diverge around two parts in ten trillion, which is entirely measureable.

It shows ab initio (startign from no assumptions) calculations for the most extreme examples of parity pair crystals - grey selenium, tellurium, and alpha-quartz - and shows why quartz is not a good candidate.

If the Equivalence Principle can be violated at will, spacetime curvature is immediately discredited at the postulate level. General Relativity is shown to be WRONG. Somebody should look.

The necessary apparatus exists in at least five labs worldwide - Eric Adleberger at U/Washington; Riley Newman at UC/Irvine and in an abandoned missile bunker in Washington State; Wei-Tou Ni in Taiwan; and Ramanath Cowsik in India. All of them are busily spending tax dollars repeating and repeating what has already failed, ever searching for more zero. I ask the obvious question:

Isn't the proper test of spacetime geometry test mass geometry not composition?

Newman is a really nice guy, but he is still irreversibly committed to repeating and repeating the same old failure. No guts, no glory. What can the new inquiry do worst case, fail? They've already got 400 years of that. Nobody will notice.

It might succeed. Somebody should look.



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