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Originally Posted by Jerry Jensen
Conceptually there is nothing wrong with Steve's root hypothesis, if you assume the frequency of these oscillations is so high that it is virtually undetectable. Face it: There has to be a mechanism for backing mass/energy into a gravitational field. Particle physicists assume this is the function of the Higgs boson - an animal never detected.
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If the frequency cannot be detected, why should any supposed effect be detectable? And speaking of undetected things like the Higgs boson, let me point out that violations of charge conservation have
NEVER been observed. Are you sure you want to ride this crippled pony of a theory? This is one for the glue factory!
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Originally Posted by Jerry Jensen
Particle physics has a phenomenological history of development: We observed behaviour, then built models that explain the behavior. Eventually the models became so good, they could predict behavior in many cases. But this is no different from the development cycle of epicycles, and may contain fundamental conceptual errors in spite of the success of the methods.
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Great Flying Spaghetti Monster! I do wish people would stop gratuitously mentioning epicycles! That's 10 points off for you!
If your statement is taken at face value it would seem to mean that if our theories get to be too good at prediction then we should distrust them because they cannot possibly be right. What kind of an approach is this?
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Originally Posted by Jerry Jensen
One of the offshoots of Steve's approach (and my own, which is almost identical) is that we should expect field behavior near massive objects that is different from particle solutions. These variations should also be observable, and I think they are: In the acceleration of the solar wind, the Doppler dip of the Pioneer 6 probe, and many other poorly understood phenomena -- such as triboelectric effects.
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The approach followed by you and by Stephen is almost identical in this respect: you ignore physical principles already known as well as measurements and experiments already performed. Charge does not "oscillate"; the speed of light does not vary by 20 percent across the diameter of the Solar System. Both of you need to go back to the university library of your choice and really read up on physics.