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'''Theory of relativity''' (by some called [[Bullshit|Relativism]]) was proposed by a joint paper by [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Lacan|Jacques Lacan]] who said that all relatives in a family were only in their various positions in the family relative to one another in a fixed point in time or space. For instance, a father is a father to a child and he is a brother to his brother. Thus the same person is both a father and a brother, from two different points of view. Well, Einstein wasn't really that helpful, but he had lots of PhDs and qualifications to make it sound really important (however ambiguous those qualifications were) so people credited him with the discovery anyway.
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As such, it was one of the most important inventions in history, paving the way for the [[temporal paradox]], the engine which powers the [[Time machine]] used by Professor [[Marty McFly]] in his famous [[time travel]] documentary ''[[Forward to the past]]''.
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[[Albert Einstein]]'s 1905 rant "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" introduced the wild guess of relativity. Einstein's marketing agent (a closet Jew), suggested there may be some difficulty marketing "wild guess of relativity", and today we are left with the result -- ''"the principle of relativity"''. While this principle was not new to Einstein's work, he found that putting a fork in the microwave may have looked fun, yet in the long run just ended up breaking it. The experiment was new, in it's focus on placing various other objects in a microwave and seeing what happened. He found that the same power needed to spark a fork in the lab was equal to that required in a kitchen to be the same as that required to blow up a [[kitten]], or melt a hydrated rose, regardless of their rotation or the motion of the body of food, flowers or fauna. Raindrops on roses and radiation on kittens were just a few of his favorite things.
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[[Chuck Norris]] has recently discovered a new version of the theory of relativity involving multiple universes in which Chuck Norris is even more badass than in this one. When the concept was made public by [[Albert Einstein]], Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked him in the face.
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The [[theory of relativity]] is disproved by numerous counterexamples, but is promoted by [[liberals]] who like its encouragement of [[moral relativism|relativism]] and its tendency to pull people away from the [[Bible]].<ref group="note">See, ''e.g.'', historian Paul Johnson's book, ''Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties'' (Harpercollins, 1983), 1st U.S. ed., ch. 1: "A Relativistic World."  See also Tribe, Laurence H. (November 1989). "The curvature of constitutional space: what lawyers can learn from modern physics." ''Harvard Law Review'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), vol. 103, no. 1 (thanking [[Barack Obama]], who was a first-year law student when this absurd law review article was written, for his supposed "analytic and research assistance").</ref>  Here is a list of 52 counterexamples: any one of them would show that the mathematical theory is incorrect:
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#Computer simulations based on the theory of relativity predict far more [[black holes]] than are observed.<ref group="note">"The ratio of the mass of black holes in galaxy centers to the rest of the matter in galaxies is larger in the simulations than in the real universe." Emspak, Jesse (November 28, 2012). [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biggest-black-hole-blast-ever "Biggest black hole blast ever could solve cosmological mystery."] ''Space.com'' website.  Reprinted at ''Scientific American'' website.</ref>  Indeed, it is doubtful whether black holes even exist, and the latest observation disproved the prediction.<ref>Lemonick, Michael D. (November 6, 2014). [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141106-space-g2-black-hole-science/?google_editors_picks=true "Black hole fails to destroy mystery cosmic cloud."] ''National Geographic'' website.</ref>
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The Theory of Relativity is based on two postulates:
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#"[[Quasar]]s are disappearing" contrary to the [[theory of relativity]], and astronomers simply "stopped looking" after finding more than ten examples of rapidly changing quasars that confound the theory with respect to black holes.<ref>Templeton, Graham (November 30, 2015). [http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/218636-quasars-are-disappearing-and-astronomers-arent-sure-why "Quasars are disappearing and astronomers aren't sure why."] ''ExtremeTech'' website.</ref>
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#The [[orbital eccentricity]] of the [[Moon]]'s orbit is increasing, contrary to what Relativity predicts.<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0212</ref>
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#The [[Pioneer anomaly|''Pioneer'' anomaly]].
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#The [[Sun]] is a '''''perfect''''' sphere - "the solar flattening is ... too small to agree with that predicted from its surface rotation."<ref>http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/65491-why-is-the-sun-so-round</ref>
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#[[Quantum entanglement]] near the [[event horizon]] of a [[black hole]]—with one particle of the pair on one side, and other particle of the pair on the other side—defies the Theory of Relativity.<ref>https://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/mathematics-and-physical-science/alice-and-bob-meet-the-wall-of-fire/</ref>  Relativity is a mathematical theory that cannot permit any exceptions, just as arithmetic falls part if 2 times 2 is ever not equal to 4.  See also [[black hole firewall]].[[Image:600px-Albert Einstein Head.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|
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"I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional [[Atheism|atheist]] whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." - [[Albert Einstein]]<ref name="Isaacson390">Isaacson, Walter (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=cdxWNE7NY6QC&pg=PT390 ''Einstein: His Life and Universe''] (New York: Simon and Schuster), p. 390.  Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 19, 2015.</ref>]]
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#The speed of light in a vacuum is slower than expected—less than ''c''—based on new data from a 25-year-old [[supernova]].<ref>[http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184879-einsteinian-error-the-25-year-old-supernova-that-could-change-the-speed-of-light-forever Einsteinian error: The 25-year-old supernova that could change the speed of light forever]</ref>
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#"Celestial signals defy [[Albert Einstein]]. Strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than Einstein believed."<ref>[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129500.700-breaking-relativity-celestial-signals-defy-einstein.html ''New Scientist'' (Jan. 2, 2014)]</ref>
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#A physics article published in 2014 states that "general relativity, which describes gravity at low energies precisely, break[s] down at high energies."<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3720</ref>
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#Subatomic particles with mass have a speed observed to be as fast as the speed of light ("we are 100% sure that the speed of light is the speed of [[neutrinos]]"<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17364682</ref>), which contradicts Relativity because the [[Lorentz factor]] is then infinite.<ref>http://www.hindustantimes.com/Roll-over-Einstein-Law-of-physics-challenged/Article1-749189.aspx - note that a similar observation of faster-than-light speeds was also made in 2007 (with a larger margin of error).</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/us-science-neutrinos-light-idUSTRE7AH0T720111118</ref>  Neutrinos were observed to travel at the speed of light by an independent experiment also: "Their neutrinos traveled at precisely the speed of light, not faster or slower."<ref>http://junkscience.com/2012/03/21/no-you-still-cant-go-faster-than-light/</ref>
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#Anomalies in the locations of spacecraft that have flown by [[Earth]] ("flybys"). During the gravity assists from Earth, both the ''Galileo'' spacecraft and the ''Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous'' (''NEAR'') spacecraft experienced a change in velocity different than that predicted by General Relativity.<ref>http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/19088/1/98-0296.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23410705/</ref>
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#[[Spiral galaxies]] confound Relativity, and unseen, nonexistent "[[dark matter]]" has been invented to try to retrofit observations to the theory.<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1873</ref> "Dark matter mysteriously missing around sun.  Theories say neighborhood should be filled with it, but new study shows otherwise."<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47101905</ref>
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#The acceleration in the expansion of the [[universe]] confounds Relativity, and unseen "[[dark energy]]" has been invented to try to retrofit observations to the theory; data released in April 2019 contradicts the theory by showing that the universe is expanding more rapidly than the theory allows.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/65332-hubble-wrong-speed.html</ref>
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#Increasingly precise measurements of the advance of the [[perihelion]] of [[Mercury]] show a shift greater than predicted by Relativity, well beyond the margin of error.<ref group="note">Even [[liberal]] Wikipedia, which promotes Relativity, admits that Relativity's total predicted precession of Mercury's perihelion is 575.31, while the observed data is contrary to the prediction: 574.10±0.65. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Perihelion_precession_of_Mercury] Also, in a complicated or contrived series of calculations that most physics majors cannot duplicate even after learning them, the theory of general relativity's fundamental formula, <math>G_{\mu\nu} = 8 \pi K T_{\mu\nu}\,</math>, was conformed to match Mercury's then-observed precession of 5600.0 arc-seconds per century. Subsequently, however, more sophisticated technology has measured a different value of this precession (5599.7 arc-seconds per century, with a margin of error of only 0.01), and leading promoters of Relativity (such as Professor Clifford Will) have omitted this in listing tests confirming Relativity.</ref>
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#Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravitational waves predicted by the theory, no direct observation of [[gravity]] [[wave]]s has occurred.<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3781</ref>  ''Sound like [[global warming]]?''  Then, in classic [[liberal claptrap]], the liberal media claimed that gravitational waves were discovered when in fact no such direct observation was made.
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#The discontinuity in momentum as velocity approaches "c" for infinitesimal mass, compared to the momentum of light.
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#[[Atheistic science]] admits that "observations don't match predictions, because the objects farthest from each other in the known universe are so far apart that the time it would take to travel between them at the speed of light exceeds the age of the universe," and implausible theories are created to try to explain it.<ref>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100409-black-holes-alternate-universe-multiverse-einstein-wormholes/</ref>
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#The logical problem of a force which is applied at a right angle to the velocity of a relativistic mass - does this act on the rest mass or the relativistic mass?
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#The observed lack of curvature in overall space.<ref group="note">If space were curved, one would never expect the universe as a whole to be almost precisely flat.  Yet it is.</ref> 
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#The universe shortly after its creation, when [[Quantum mechanics|quantum]] effects dominated and contradicted Relativity.
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#The [[action-at-a-distance]] of [[quantum entanglement]].<ref group="note">Quantum entanglement has not yet communicated information faster than the speed of light, but has already exhibited action faster than the speed of light.</ref>
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#The [[action-at-a-distance]] by [[Jesus]], described in [[John 1-7 (Translated)#Chapter 4|John 4:46-54]], [[Matthew 10-19 (Translated)#Chapter 15|Matthew 15:28]], and [[Matthew 20-28 (Translated)#Chapter 27|Matthew 27:51]].
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#The failure to discover [[gravitons]], despite spending hundreds of millions in taxpayer money in searching. While these tax dollars were not necessarily "wasted", the lack of results indicate that scientists need to revisit their hypothesis.
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#Newly observed data reveal that the fine-structure constant, α (alpha), actually varies throughout the universe, demonstrating that all inertial frames of reference do '''not''' experience identical laws of physics as claimed by Relativity.<ref group="note">For a report on the data, see a paper submitted in 2010 by John Webb and Julian King of the University of new South Wales, Australia, to the ''Physical Review Letters''.</ref>
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#The double star "W13" weighs "40 times as much as the sun—more than enough to form a [[black hole]].  So why is it not a black hole? The only explanation [a leading scientist] can think of ... does not make astrophysical sense."<ref>https://www.economist.com/node/17035953</ref>
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#The inability of the theory to lead to other insights, contrary to every verified theory of physics.
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#The change in mass over time of standard kilograms preserved under ideal conditions.<ref>[[Mystery:Why Is the Kilogram Losing Weight?]]</ref>
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#The uniformity in temperature throughout the universe.<ref>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092-speed-of-light-may-have-changed-recently.html ("A varying speed of light contradicts Einstein's theory of relativity, and would undermine much of traditional physics. But some physicists believe it would elegantly explain puzzling cosmological phenomena such as the nearly uniform temperature of the universe.")</ref>
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#"According to Einstein’s view on the universe, space-time should be smooth and continuous" but observations instead show "inexplicable static" greater than "all artificial sources of" possible background noise.<ref>[https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Cool-Astronomy/2010/1025/Is-the-universe-a-big-hologram-This-device-could-find-out. Hunt for gravitational waves discovers unexpected data instead].</ref>
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#"The snag is that in quantum mechanics, time retains its Newtonian aloofness, providing the stage against which matter dances but never being affected by its presence. These two [QM and Relativity] conceptions of time don’t gel."<ref>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=splitting-time-from-space</ref>
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#The theory predicts [[wormholes]] just as it predicts [[black holes]], but wormholes violate causality and permit absurd time travel.<ref>http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v61/i13/p1446_1 .  The popular science press promotes black holes to a far greater extent than wormholes.</ref>
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#The theory predicts natural formation of highly ordered (and thus low entropy) black holes despite the increase in [[entropy]] required by the [[Second Law of Thermodynamics]].<ref group="note">Contrived explanations have been suggested for this dilemma, such as Stephen Hawking proposing that the entropy of matter in a black hole is somehow stored in the surface area of its event horizon to be released back into its surroundings as the black hole decays by radiation, known as "Hawking radiation."</ref>
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#Data from the [[PSR B1913 16|PSR B1913+16]] increasingly diverge from predictions of the [[General Theory of Relativity]] such that, despite a Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded for early work on this pulsar, no data at all have been released about it for over five years.
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#The lack of useful devices developed based on any insights provided by the theory; no lives have been saved or helped, and the theory has not led to other useful theories and may have interfered with scientific progress.<ref group="note">Contrary to the claims of Relativists, the GPS system has never been based on Relativity.  The Time Service Department, U.S. Navy, observed that "The Operational Control System (OCS) of the Global Positioning System (GPS) does not include the rigorous transformations between coordinate systems that Einstein’s general theory of relativity would seem to require" in part because "the effects of relativity, where they are different from the effects predicted by classical mechanics and electromagnetic theory, are too small to matter – less than one centimeter, for users on or near the earth.”</ref>  This stands in stark contrast with every verified theory of science.
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#Relativity requires different values for the [[inertia]]l mass of a moving object: in its direction of motion, and perpendicular to that direction.  This contradicts the logical principle that the laws of physics are the same in all directions.
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#Relativity requires that anything traveling at the [[speed of light]] must have mass zero, so it must have [[momentum]] zero.  But the laws of [[electrodynamics]] require that light have nonzero momentum.
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#Unlike most well-tested fundamental physical theories, the theory of relativity violates conditions of a conservative field.  Path independence, for example, is lacking under the theory of relativity, as in the "twin paradox" whereby the age of each twin under the theory is dependent on the path he traveled.<ref group="note">In defense of the theory, it is noted that it mandates conservation of the matter-stress-energy tensor (the only way to get ''real'' conservation, since matter and energy are interchangeable.)  This follows from the "contracted Bianchi identity." [http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/omei/gr/chap6/node14.html]  Also, the curl of the "gravitational field vector" is exactly zero in the absence of moving sources, due to symmetries of [[Riemann]]'s tensor.  It follows, from [[Stokes' Theorem]], that the gravitational field is conservative and has a potential function.  Energy is conserved.</ref>
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#The Ehrenfest Paradox: Consider a spinning hoop, where the [[tangent]]ial [[velocity]] is near the speed of light. In this case, the circumference (<math>2 \pi R</math>) is length-contracted. However, since <math>R</math> is always perpendicular to the motion, it is not contracted. This leads to an apparent paradox: does the radius of the accelerating hoop equal <math>R</math>, or is it less than <math>R</math>?
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#Based on Relativity, Einstein predicted in 1905 that clocks at the Earth's equator would be slower than clocks at the North Pole, due to different velocities; in fact, all clocks at sea level measure time at the same rate, and Relativists made new assumptions about the Earth's shape to justify this contradiction of the theory; they also make the implausible claim that relativistic effects from gravitation precisely offset the effects from differences in velocity.<ref>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v227/n5255/abs/227270a0.html</ref>
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#The Twin Paradox: Consider twins who are separated with one traveling at a very high speed such that his "clock" (age) slows down, so that when he returns he has a younger age than the twin; this violates Relativity because ''both'' twins should expect the other to be younger, if motion is relative.  Einstein himself admitted that this contradicts Relativity.<ref group="note">Einstein attempted to explain the paradox based on the acceleration that one twin uniquely undergoes, but the length of travel can simply be extended such that any effect from acceleration would be ''de minimis''.</ref>
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#Based on Relativity, Einstein claimed in 1909 that the [[aether (science)|aether]] does not exist, but in order to make subatomic physics work right, theorists had to introduce the aether-like concept of the Higgs field, which fills all of space and breaks symmetries.
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#[[Minkowski space]] is predicated on the idea of four-dimensional vectors of which one component is [[time]].  However, one of the properties of a [[vector space]] is that every vector have an inverse.  Time (formally: movement forward in time) cannot be a vector because it has no inverse.
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#In [[Genesis (ch.1)|Genesis 1:6-8]], we are told that one of God's first creations was a firmament in the heavens.  This likely refers to the creation of the luminiferous [[aether]].
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#It is impossible to perform an experiment to determine whether Einstein's theory of relativity is correct, or the older Lorentz aether theory is correct.  Believing one over the other is a matter of [[faith]].
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#Despite a century of wasting billions of dollars in work on the theory, "No one knows how to solve completely the equations of general relativity that describe gravity; they are simply beyond current understanding."<ref>[http://www.mathunion.org/o/General/Prizes/2006/TaoENG.pdf Statement in awarding the coveted Fields Medal]</ref>
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#Experiments in electromagnetic induction contradict Relativity: "Einstein’s Relativity ... can not explain the experiment in graph 2, in which moving magnetic field has not produced electric field."<ref>http://www.wbabin.net/weuro/qingping1.pdf</ref><ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504223</ref>
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#Relativity breaks down if a [[solenoid]] is traveling at or near the speed of light.<ref>http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3244279</ref>
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#The [[Pauli Exclusion principle]] states that no two electrons in a closed system can exist in the same quantum state and if one electron changes all others must compensate. As the universe is a closed system when one electron changes state so must all others, even if they are thousands of light years apart.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2012/feb/28/1.</ref>
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#The 2014 findings of gravitational waves are actually just dust.<ref>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26248-ripples-from-dawn-of-creation-vanish-in-a-puff-of-dust.html</ref>
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#The theory of relativity violates [[Occam's razor]] by requiring multiple new, implausible assumptions, including an invariant speed of light, denial of [[action at a distance]], denial of basic, well-proven principles of [[quantum mechanics]], and insistence that all places in the universe be equivalent to each other.
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#The theory of relativity has discontinuities whereby the limit of a physical quantity as a variable (such as mass or velocity) approaches a fixed value, but it is not the same as the physical quantity at that fixed value.  For example, the limit of momentum as mass approaches 0 and velocity approaches the speed of light is not equal to the momentum of (massless) light.
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#Discontinuities in General Relativity are well-recognized.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01654285</ref>
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#All motion is not absolute, but relative and is therefore a matter of opinion, which was disproven when [[scientist]]s discovered that the universe had a stationary center and therefore an absolute perspective from which all motion was seen (i.e. that of [[God]]).
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From these two postulates, Einstein somehow (allegedly) deduced that increasing an object's [[speed]] will cause it to become heavier and shorter, just as people do when they get old, and cause it to see the rest of the universe speed up, just as people see the world do when they get old. In fact, as an object's speed approaches the [[Speed of Light|speed of light]], its length approaches zero and mass approaches infinity. Thus, nothing is able to travel at the speed of light, or faster than it (except [[tachyon]]s, which are particles with imaginary mass that can't travel slower than light because they are always on the run from the Physics Police, but who gives a shit about ''them'' (except theoretical physicists who waste all their [[time]] on this stuff)?). Then he realized that if all motion was relative, then so was speed, and therefore so were [[mass]]es, sizes, and all that other crap that changes with speed. Thus, it was possible for each of two guys moving past each other at extremely high speed to see the other as being shorter, heavier, and aging less rapidly than himself, and upon stopping, Guy #1 would be older from his own perspective than Guy #2, and Guy #2 would be older from his own perspective than Guy #1.
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== See also ==
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*[[Theory of relativity]]
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Realizing that his first postulate and his conclusions would normally violate each other ''and'' conventional [[reality]], but not realizing that one of his postulates might actually be bullshit, Einstein decided that the only way to resolve this contradiction would be to say that everything was an opinion and therefore true from some perspectives but not all, including the belief that The Theory of Relativity is self-contradictory nonsense based on a fictional premise. But even this "solution" contradicts itself, as some beliefs, like the belief that not everything is an opinion, make themselves true from all perspectives when true from at least one, thereby preventing themselves from being opinions. Modern scientists often amend Einstein's solution to say that the definition of "opinion" can itself also be an opinion (in some people's opinions), and that every belief must therefore be an opinion under at least one definition of the word. This lead to The Theory of Relativity's spinoff, "''The Theoury of Opinionism''".
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Later, just to to be a smart-ass Einstein declared that [[gravity|gravitational fields]] were warped areas in the fabric of space-time, contradicting his previous statement that space-time had no fabric to warp. He then declared that both were just his opinions : It has been rumored that Einstein may have had [[multiple personality disorder]].
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One weird result of the theory is that as an object's speed approaches the [[Speed of Light|speed of light]], its length approaches zero and its mass approaches infinity. Thus, nothing is able to travel at the speed of light, or faster than it (except [[tachyon]]s, which are particles with imaginary mass that can't travel slower than light because they are always on the run from the Physics Police, but who gives a shit about ''them'' (except theoretical physicists who waste all their [[time]] on this stuff)?).
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But [[Zeno's Paradox#Zeno's Paradox|Zeno's Paradox]] states that all motion is impossible, just those that are faster than light, so why the hell did we even start looking at [[Sexual intercourse|motion]] in the first place? Zeno is rumored to have been a sex-addict.
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Einstein's final piece of the puzzle was to formulate an equation he could tack on for idiots everywhere to use when they wanted to sound smart. That is the famous "'''E = mo<sup>2</sup>'''" business. No one actually knows what this means, and it is one of Einstein's greatest jokes on mankind. With the rise of feminism, women are also free to quote this equation in business meetings without having a clue. Equality is good for science, business, heathenism, and progress.
 
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This "equation" was proven to be false in the late 16th century by a peasant named William Dodd. He concluded (with much a much more convincing style of wording) that as Einstein was yet to be born--he himself (already being aged 19) was his elder and thus superior of knowledge (see also: [[Because I says so principle]]). When interviewed by [[channel 7]] news, Mr. Dodd denied the 14 allegations of sexual assault that the hot, large breasted interviewer accused him of, but did comment on Einstein's rambling being entirely fictional.
 
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The real equation is as follows :
 
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One of the strengths of such an enjoyable display is that, if the microwave is not your own, it's so much more amusing (although Einstein did not derive it this way). For proof, see the back of any TV dinner in which the instructions are translated from another language (e.g. "warning, this product may become hot when heated").
 
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While it may seem like reading this article has taken approximately an hour, it has really only been about twelve seconds. That, dear readers, is relativity.
 
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[[File:relativity.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Einstein's home designed using relativity so nobody could break in and hurt him]]
 
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[[Albert Einstein]] was an exceptional scientist with a particularly logical mind. One day, after a fight with [[Stephen Hawking]] he was forced to take the train home, as Hawking had trashed his '''hovercar'''. He was bored, and being a scientist he calculated the speed of the train. It was roughly 200mph. It was at this point he realised that if he was on a train travelling at 200mph an hour towards [[Bristol]], that it was conceivable Bristol might be travelling at 200mph towards him. This would mean he would crash into Bristol at a combined speed of 400mph and a force exceeding 100,000,000 N. It also occurred to him that if Bristol were to hit him at that speed, he would [[die]]. Therefore he decided to create a Universal law to prevent this kind of thing happening. He decided that if everything was relative to something else, then only smaller, more sensible, train shaped objects could travel at ridiculous speeds.
 
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity states:
 
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{{Q|If an object is travelling at a given speed in a given direction is a pencil, and particularly if the object concerned is travelling at me, or if I am travelling at an object, especially if either the object or myself is travelling at a speed likely to cause injury to me, then only the object, and not the object and the destination, or target, will move, and it will slow down slightly.|Albert Einstein}}
 
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The theory of relativity is disproved by numerous counterexamples, but is promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to pull people away from the Bible.[note 1] Here is a list of 52 counterexamples: any one of them would show that the mathematical theory is incorrect:

  1. Computer simulations based on the theory of relativity predict far more black holes than are observed.[note 2] Indeed, it is doubtful whether black holes even exist, and the latest observation disproved the prediction.[1]
  2. "Quasars are disappearing" contrary to the theory of relativity, and astronomers simply "stopped looking" after finding more than ten examples of rapidly changing quasars that confound the theory with respect to black holes.[2]
  3. The orbital eccentricity of the Moon's orbit is increasing, contrary to what Relativity predicts.[3]
  4. The Pioneer anomaly.
  5. The Sun is a perfect sphere - "the solar flattening is ... too small to agree with that predicted from its surface rotation."[4]
  6. Quantum entanglement near the event horizon of a black hole—with one particle of the pair on one side, and other particle of the pair on the other side—defies the Theory of Relativity.[5] Relativity is a mathematical theory that cannot permit any exceptions, just as arithmetic falls part if 2 times 2 is ever not equal to 4. See also black hole firewall.
    "I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." - Albert Einstein[6]
  7. The speed of light in a vacuum is slower than expected—less than c—based on new data from a 25-year-old supernova.[7]
  8. "Celestial signals defy Albert Einstein. Strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than Einstein believed."[8]
  9. A physics article published in 2014 states that "general relativity, which describes gravity at low energies precisely, break[s] down at high energies."[9]
  10. Subatomic particles with mass have a speed observed to be as fast as the speed of light ("we are 100% sure that the speed of light is the speed of neutrinos"[10]), which contradicts Relativity because the Lorentz factor is then infinite.[11][12] Neutrinos were observed to travel at the speed of light by an independent experiment also: "Their neutrinos traveled at precisely the speed of light, not faster or slower."[13]
  11. Anomalies in the locations of spacecraft that have flown by Earth ("flybys"). During the gravity assists from Earth, both the Galileo spacecraft and the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft experienced a change in velocity different than that predicted by General Relativity.[14][15]
  12. Spiral galaxies confound Relativity, and unseen, nonexistent "dark matter" has been invented to try to retrofit observations to the theory.[16] "Dark matter mysteriously missing around sun. Theories say neighborhood should be filled with it, but new study shows otherwise."[17]
  13. The acceleration in the expansion of the universe confounds Relativity, and unseen "dark energy" has been invented to try to retrofit observations to the theory; data released in April 2019 contradicts the theory by showing that the universe is expanding more rapidly than the theory allows.[18]
  14. Increasingly precise measurements of the advance of the perihelion of Mercury show a shift greater than predicted by Relativity, well beyond the margin of error.[note 3]
  15. Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravitational waves predicted by the theory, no direct observation of gravity waves has occurred.[19] Sound like global warming? Then, in classic liberal claptrap, the liberal media claimed that gravitational waves were discovered when in fact no such direct observation was made.
  16. The discontinuity in momentum as velocity approaches "c" for infinitesimal mass, compared to the momentum of light.
  17. Atheistic science admits that "observations don't match predictions, because the objects farthest from each other in the known universe are so far apart that the time it would take to travel between them at the speed of light exceeds the age of the universe," and implausible theories are created to try to explain it.[20]
  18. The logical problem of a force which is applied at a right angle to the velocity of a relativistic mass - does this act on the rest mass or the relativistic mass?
  19. The observed lack of curvature in overall space.[note 4]
  20. The universe shortly after its creation, when quantum effects dominated and contradicted Relativity.
  21. The action-at-a-distance of quantum entanglement.[note 5]
  22. The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54, Matthew 15:28, and Matthew 27:51.
  23. The failure to discover gravitons, despite spending hundreds of millions in taxpayer money in searching. While these tax dollars were not necessarily "wasted", the lack of results indicate that scientists need to revisit their hypothesis.
  24. Newly observed data reveal that the fine-structure constant, α (alpha), actually varies throughout the universe, demonstrating that all inertial frames of reference do not experience identical laws of physics as claimed by Relativity.[note 6]
  25. The double star "W13" weighs "40 times as much as the sun—more than enough to form a black hole. So why is it not a black hole? The only explanation [a leading scientist] can think of ... does not make astrophysical sense."[21]
  26. The inability of the theory to lead to other insights, contrary to every verified theory of physics.
  27. The change in mass over time of standard kilograms preserved under ideal conditions.[22]
  28. The uniformity in temperature throughout the universe.[23]
  29. "According to Einstein’s view on the universe, space-time should be smooth and continuous" but observations instead show "inexplicable static" greater than "all artificial sources of" possible background noise.[24]
  30. "The snag is that in quantum mechanics, time retains its Newtonian aloofness, providing the stage against which matter dances but never being affected by its presence. These two [QM and Relativity] conceptions of time don’t gel."[25]
  31. The theory predicts wormholes just as it predicts black holes, but wormholes violate causality and permit absurd time travel.[26]
  32. The theory predicts natural formation of highly ordered (and thus low entropy) black holes despite the increase in entropy required by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.[note 7]
  33. Data from the PSR B1913+16 increasingly diverge from predictions of the General Theory of Relativity such that, despite a Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded for early work on this pulsar, no data at all have been released about it for over five years.
  34. The lack of useful devices developed based on any insights provided by the theory; no lives have been saved or helped, and the theory has not led to other useful theories and may have interfered with scientific progress.[note 8] This stands in stark contrast with every verified theory of science.
  35. Relativity requires different values for the inertial mass of a moving object: in its direction of motion, and perpendicular to that direction. This contradicts the logical principle that the laws of physics are the same in all directions.
  36. Relativity requires that anything traveling at the speed of light must have mass zero, so it must have momentum zero. But the laws of electrodynamics require that light have nonzero momentum.
  37. Unlike most well-tested fundamental physical theories, the theory of relativity violates conditions of a conservative field. Path independence, for example, is lacking under the theory of relativity, as in the "twin paradox" whereby the age of each twin under the theory is dependent on the path he traveled.[note 9]
  38. The Ehrenfest Paradox: Consider a spinning hoop, where the tangential velocity is near the speed of light. In this case, the circumference (<math>2 \pi R</math>) is length-contracted. However, since <math>R</math> is always perpendicular to the motion, it is not contracted. This leads to an apparent paradox: does the radius of the accelerating hoop equal <math>R</math>, or is it less than <math>R</math>?
  39. Based on Relativity, Einstein predicted in 1905 that clocks at the Earth's equator would be slower than clocks at the North Pole, due to different velocities; in fact, all clocks at sea level measure time at the same rate, and Relativists made new assumptions about the Earth's shape to justify this contradiction of the theory; they also make the implausible claim that relativistic effects from gravitation precisely offset the effects from differences in velocity.[27]
  40. The Twin Paradox: Consider twins who are separated with one traveling at a very high speed such that his "clock" (age) slows down, so that when he returns he has a younger age than the twin; this violates Relativity because both twins should expect the other to be younger, if motion is relative. Einstein himself admitted that this contradicts Relativity.[note 10]
  41. Based on Relativity, Einstein claimed in 1909 that the aether does not exist, but in order to make subatomic physics work right, theorists had to introduce the aether-like concept of the Higgs field, which fills all of space and breaks symmetries.
  42. Minkowski space is predicated on the idea of four-dimensional vectors of which one component is time. However, one of the properties of a vector space is that every vector have an inverse. Time (formally: movement forward in time) cannot be a vector because it has no inverse.
  43. In Genesis 1:6-8, we are told that one of God's first creations was a firmament in the heavens. This likely refers to the creation of the luminiferous aether.
  44. It is impossible to perform an experiment to determine whether Einstein's theory of relativity is correct, or the older Lorentz aether theory is correct. Believing one over the other is a matter of faith.
  45. Despite a century of wasting billions of dollars in work on the theory, "No one knows how to solve completely the equations of general relativity that describe gravity; they are simply beyond current understanding."[28]
  46. Experiments in electromagnetic induction contradict Relativity: "Einstein’s Relativity ... can not explain the experiment in graph 2, in which moving magnetic field has not produced electric field."[29][30]
  47. Relativity breaks down if a solenoid is traveling at or near the speed of light.[31]
  48. The Pauli Exclusion principle states that no two electrons in a closed system can exist in the same quantum state and if one electron changes all others must compensate. As the universe is a closed system when one electron changes state so must all others, even if they are thousands of light years apart.[32]
  49. The 2014 findings of gravitational waves are actually just dust.[33]
  50. The theory of relativity violates Occam's razor by requiring multiple new, implausible assumptions, including an invariant speed of light, denial of action at a distance, denial of basic, well-proven principles of quantum mechanics, and insistence that all places in the universe be equivalent to each other.
  51. The theory of relativity has discontinuities whereby the limit of a physical quantity as a variable (such as mass or velocity) approaches a fixed value, but it is not the same as the physical quantity at that fixed value. For example, the limit of momentum as mass approaches 0 and velocity approaches the speed of light is not equal to the momentum of (massless) light.
  52. Discontinuities in General Relativity are well-recognized.[34]

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For a discussion of rebuttals to these counterarguments, see Essay:Rebuttal to Counterexamples to Relativity.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ See, e.g., historian Paul Johnson's book, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Harpercollins, 1983), 1st U.S. ed., ch. 1: "A Relativistic World." See also Tribe, Laurence H. (November 1989). "The curvature of constitutional space: what lawyers can learn from modern physics." Harvard Law Review (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), vol. 103, no. 1 (thanking Barack Obama, who was a first-year law student when this absurd law review article was written, for his supposed "analytic and research assistance").
  2. ↑ "The ratio of the mass of black holes in galaxy centers to the rest of the matter in galaxies is larger in the simulations than in the real universe." Emspak, Jesse (November 28, 2012). "Biggest black hole blast ever could solve cosmological mystery." Space.com website. Reprinted at Scientific American website.
  3. ↑ Even liberal Wikipedia, which promotes Relativity, admits that Relativity's total predicted precession of Mercury's perihelion is 575.31, while the observed data is contrary to the prediction: 574.10±0.65. [1] Also, in a complicated or contrived series of calculations that most physics majors cannot duplicate even after learning them, the theory of general relativity's fundamental formula, <math>G_{\mu\nu} = 8 \pi K T_{\mu\nu}\,</math>, was conformed to match Mercury's then-observed precession of 5600.0 arc-seconds per century. Subsequently, however, more sophisticated technology has measured a different value of this precession (5599.7 arc-seconds per century, with a margin of error of only 0.01), and leading promoters of Relativity (such as Professor Clifford Will) have omitted this in listing tests confirming Relativity.
  4. ↑ If space were curved, one would never expect the universe as a whole to be almost precisely flat. Yet it is.
  5. ↑ Quantum entanglement has not yet communicated information faster than the speed of light, but has already exhibited action faster than the speed of light.
  6. ↑ For a report on the data, see a paper submitted in 2010 by John Webb and Julian King of the University of new South Wales, Australia, to the Physical Review Letters.
  7. ↑ Contrived explanations have been suggested for this dilemma, such as Stephen Hawking proposing that the entropy of matter in a black hole is somehow stored in the surface area of its event horizon to be released back into its surroundings as the black hole decays by radiation, known as "Hawking radiation."
  8. ↑ Contrary to the claims of Relativists, the GPS system has never been based on Relativity. The Time Service Department, U.S. Navy, observed that "The Operational Control System (OCS) of the Global Positioning System (GPS) does not include the rigorous transformations between coordinate systems that Einstein’s general theory of relativity would seem to require" in part because "the effects of relativity, where they are different from the effects predicted by classical mechanics and electromagnetic theory, are too small to matter – less than one centimeter, for users on or near the earth.”
  9. ↑ In defense of the theory, it is noted that it mandates conservation of the matter-stress-energy tensor (the only way to get real conservation, since matter and energy are interchangeable.) This follows from the "contracted Bianchi identity." [2] Also, the curl of the "gravitational field vector" is exactly zero in the absence of moving sources, due to symmetries of Riemann's tensor. It follows, from Stokes' Theorem, that the gravitational field is conservative and has a potential function. Energy is conserved.
  10. ↑ Einstein attempted to explain the paradox based on the acceleration that one twin uniquely undergoes, but the length of travel can simply be extended such that any effect from acceleration would be de minimis.

References

  1. ↑ Lemonick, Michael D. (November 6, 2014). "Black hole fails to destroy mystery cosmic cloud." National Geographic website.
  2. ↑ Templeton, Graham (November 30, 2015). "Quasars are disappearing and astronomers aren't sure why." ExtremeTech website.
  3. ↑ https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0212
  4. ↑ http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/65491-why-is-the-sun-so-round
  5. ↑ https://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/mathematics-and-physical-science/alice-and-bob-meet-the-wall-of-fire/
  6. ↑ Isaacson, Walter (2008). Einstein: His Life and Universe (New York: Simon and Schuster), p. 390. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ Einsteinian error: The 25-year-old supernova that could change the speed of light forever
  8. ↑ New Scientist (Jan. 2, 2014)
  9. ↑ https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3720
  10. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17364682
  11. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/Roll-over-Einstein-Law-of-physics-challenged/Article1-749189.aspx - note that a similar observation of faster-than-light speeds was also made in 2007 (with a larger margin of error).
  12. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/us-science-neutrinos-light-idUSTRE7AH0T720111118
  13. ↑ http://junkscience.com/2012/03/21/no-you-still-cant-go-faster-than-light/
  14. ↑ http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/19088/1/98-0296.pdf
  15. ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23410705/
  16. ↑ https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1873
  17. ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47101905
  18. ↑ https://www.livescience.com/65332-hubble-wrong-speed.html
  19. ↑ https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3781
  20. ↑ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100409-black-holes-alternate-universe-multiverse-einstein-wormholes/
  21. ↑ https://www.economist.com/node/17035953
  22. ↑ Mystery:Why Is the Kilogram Losing Weight?
  23. ↑ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092-speed-of-light-may-have-changed-recently.html ("A varying speed of light contradicts Einstein's theory of relativity, and would undermine much of traditional physics. But some physicists believe it would elegantly explain puzzling cosmological phenomena such as the nearly uniform temperature of the universe.")
  24. ↑ Hunt for gravitational waves discovers unexpected data instead.
  25. ↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=splitting-time-from-space
  26. ↑ http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v61/i13/p1446_1 . The popular science press promotes black holes to a far greater extent than wormholes.
  27. ↑ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v227/n5255/abs/227270a0.html
  28. ↑ Statement in awarding the coveted Fields Medal
  29. ↑ http://www.wbabin.net/weuro/qingping1.pdf
  30. ↑ https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504223
  31. ↑ http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3244279
  32. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2012/feb/28/1.
  33. ↑ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26248-ripples-from-dawn-of-creation-vanish-in-a-puff-of-dust.html
  34. ↑ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01654285