Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Who Watches the Watchers?

So the resident loons over at autodynamics (that's the de Hilster clan) have decided to set another website up, physicspolice.org, its introduction is interesting:
Welcome to the physics police website. Our goal is to do what governments, universities, and journalists do not do: read the content of articles published by physicists and cosmologists around the world and look for sweeping statements, contradictions, and the biggest crime - not looking for alternatives to explain something that until now has been ruled by fantasy and dogma.
Sounds reasonable really, until you begin to read their stories further down the page. The best one is this one. They actually take the time to try to pull apart a humorous Christmas story about how Santa uses relativity to get around the world in one night. Its a joke for Christs sake, a bit of fun written for kids. de Hilster goes to the effort of criticizing the quoted scientist for an apparent contradiction about whether relativistic frames are physically real or not (AD holds that relativity is wrong). It was written for a bunch of 5 year olds for Gods sake. If this is the level of journalistic fervor we can look forward to from the physics police we're in for fun.

On a more serious note, he again uses that good old lie of people that refute relativity, that GPS systems don't use relativistic corrections, the quote from wikipedia (and its references) is enlightening here:

For GPS satellites, this discrepancy is 38 microseconds per day. To account for this, the frequency standard on-board the satellites are given a rate offset prior to launch, making it run slightly slower than its desired frequency on Earth, at 10.22999999543 MHz instead of 10.23 MHz, a difference of -4.465 parts in 1010. The atomic clocks on board the GPS satellites are precisely tuned, making this a practical engineering application of the scientific theory of relativity in a real-world system.
Now I believe that this correction may be negligible compared to the accuracy of the system, but the correction is made.

On an even lighter note it has been pointed out to me that the ADiots are now aware of me and this blog (see here), specifically they are annoyed by my demolition of their mad velocity sum equation (see here). I can't wait for the reviews of my real research by the physics police after this.


9 comments:

IbaDaiRon said...

Why you are so “married” to a theory that produces nothing I’m not sure. You are like the people who still believe the world is flat. Einstein is dead and so is relativity. It has produced no practical applications. I have a GPS guy who funded my film because he knows Einstein is wrong. He is very well respected in his field. Relativity is useless, vacuous, and wrong.

From David "duh Man" H...imself.

It's interesting how he never mentions the name of this "GPS guy"...or of any of the "thousands"(?!) of scientists who have rejected Einstein, no?

Hot air will expand to fill the space given to it. What I can't figure out is why his doesn't cool as it expands!

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