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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
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Subject: Re: Why we complain; a statement of principles
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 02:48:52 EDT
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[grrr]

>>  >    What Einstein discovered, is a new (UNBREAKABLE) law: much like
>>  >    the Second Law of Thermodynamics.   And ALL THE FUTURE SCIENCE IN
>>  >    THE WORLD, will not change it, or allow one to get around it
>>  >    somehow.

>>  This unfortunalely is not the case. What Einstein did was create
>>  a new formulation of mechanics that works better than Newtonian
>>  Mechanics in some situations. When you don't fool around with
>>  velocities close to the speed of light old Newton is fine. When
>>  tested in areas, for example: the mass increase of electrons at
>>  SLAC, Einsteins calculations prove very good. However, no how
>>  many experiments confirm a law it only takes one differing
>>  experiment to invalidate this law for those areas. Science
>>  dosen't make the universe what it is. Science is an attempt to
>>  predict what will happen based on previous observations of the
>>  universe. Remember Clarke's law. You never know.

	Alas, Einstein discovered much more than that.  He discovered
    that the very nature of the Universe, is considerably different
    than what we imagine.   Travelling FTL, is absurd, because the
    entire concept of "faster" depends upon what frame of reference you
    are in.    Speed, in and of itself, does not exist -- thus, one
    cannot be travelling "close to the speed of light", one can only
    be almost C out of synch with another object.   The universe is
    warped in the fourth dimension, so that everything, at every
    velocity, is in the exact center of the universe.

	There are a lot more discoveries than this, but I won't bother
    to go into detail.  Suffice it to say, that space empires, and
    FTL drives, derive their origin from the refusal to believe in
    a non-NEWTONIAN universe.  But again, not all the future science
    in the world, is going to change the univewrse back to a newtonian
    one.

    Steven Maurer