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Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
Based on real world data, the fraud called Einstein was forced back to at least some concept of an aether, but one that was amorphous enough to satisfy his pet ideologies, namely the flat-merged-space time of Special Relativity (1905); and the curved-space-time of General Theory of Relativity (1915). Notice that the ‘4D’ universe goes from flat to curved in 10 years. JWST observational data confirms it is flat and not expanding (future post on the hysterical-tortured maths they use to claim expansion).
Einstein’s philosophy, now the platform for modern physics and cosmology, meant that the aether was largely massless without particles, and immobile. This entailed it could not be a transmission or transduction agent - as false as a fighting sword made from paper and just as useless.
In 1923, Arthur Eddington, one of Einstein’s disciples, summarised the incoherency of the Relativity cult and its approach:
“If a substantial aether analogous to a material ocean exists, it must rigidify, as it were, a definite space; and whether the observer or whether nature pays any attention to that space or not, a fundamental separation of space and time must be there. Some would cut the knot by denying the aether altogether. We do not consider that desirable, or, so far as we can see, possible; but we do deny that the aether need have such properties as to separate space and time in the way supposed.”
Thanks Arthur. As a Relativist he admitted that space and time are not merged and the aether is real but for the sake of theory, let’s ignore it. The aether exists as an immobile or rigid medium (as Descartes believed), yet the leader of the Relativity cult (Einstotle) admitted that the aether might indeed be mobile and might indeed possess physical properties.
So, this is what passes for ‘The Science’. A melange of mish-mash, half baked ideas, endless changes, opinions, open-ended malleable equations, mutilated maths driven and shaped by philosophical need and imperative. Packaged and marketed as divine truth. No need for mechanical engineering or common sense. Try pouring water into a nothingness.
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Mach’s foundational 1883 work, The Science of Mechanics, attacked the 19th century ‘scientific’ establishment's unprovable metaphysics. Mach wrote, "No one is competent to predicate things about absolute space and absolute motion; they are pure things of thought, pure mental constructs, that cannot be produced in experience."
Mach is saying that Newtonianism is philosophy not ‘science’. It is entirely unproven and not mechanically evidenced. Mach’s view of the universe is the contrary to that of Saint Newton’s.
Newton: Newton believed space was a real, rigid, physical entity, basically an empty room. In Newton’s water-bucket experiment (link below this section analysing why this is wrong); if we spin a bucket of water hanging from the tree limb, the water climbs up the walls of the bucket due to its rotation ‘relative’ to that absolute, fixed room.
In this experiment the word ‘inertia’ indicates an object's resistance to changing speed relative to space itself. Inertia references an object at rest, or, an object going in the same direction at the same speed (no acceleration, no deceleration). Newton’s maths only work with inertial frames. Compare this to Mach.
Mach: For the Austrian "empty space" is an unprovable abstraction. If God, the ‘Universe’, or Einstein deleted every star, planet, and atom from the universe except for one bucket of water, "rotation" loses all meaning. There is nothing to rotate relative to. Therefore, the water does not climb the sides of the bucket, and you would never feel dizzy if you were spun around.
Einstein agreed with Mach and picked up the theme that knowledge and data interpretation is ‘Relative’ and applied this ‘axiom’ to Saint Isaac of Gravity and his mechanics. It was Messiah Einstein who minted the phrase, "Mach’s Principle" to argue that “local inertia is merely an interaction with the rest of the universe's matter”.
So here we have 2 worldviews: Newton’s absolute space (an empty room) and objects measured against that absolute background; and Mach who maintains that physical relationships must be ‘Relative’ and premised on many variables. More here.
“This phenomenon [etheric force] is an entirely new force of nature... operating directly through the ether substrate without ordinary electrical charge.” Thomas A. Edison, 1875 Laboratory Notes and Press Briefings.
“I don’t think anything of Einstein’s theory because I can’t understand it... [My son] may go flying into the clouds with that fellow Einstein. And if he does that, I’m afraid he won’t work with me.” Thomas A. Edison, 1923 Interview following his son’s graduation from MIT. I wonder what Thomas would think of MIT and the Ivy League now….
Yet another aetherist and mechanic whose true story is rarely taught.
The real work of Thomas Edison embarrasses the thin armed math wizards with their abstruse claims and declamations that all technological progress was a top-down victory by geniuses and theoretical mathematical models. Misinformation and propaganda are spoon fed to young minds and the masses that the mathemagician-druids with chalkboards and pencils, scribbled abstract equations, declared truth and reality, conjured a design which they then handed over to ordinary mechanics and engineers, who after bowing low to the ground, went off and built the toys.
Piffle.
Real scientific history tells us the exact opposite story. Witness electricity. The modern grid was not built by the blackboard deduction wizards; it was developed out of the physical environment by tough, self-taught practical engineers who completely ignored the academic ivory tower. Chief among these ‘science-deniers’ was none other than one of history’s greatest practical scientists and inventors: Thomas Alva Edison. Edison’s story ends with a surprise twist; and his physics and belief in an aether are always ignored by the gatekeepers.
Thomas Edison was not a “scientist” in the modern, institutionalized sense of the word. He was an aggressive, relentless industrial engineer, material strategist, and very capable businessman. Largely homeschooled and entirely decoupled from the rigid academic tracks of his era, Edison viewed the universe not as a mathematical equation to be solved, but as a physical workshop to be organised. He operated on a simple, brutal philosophy: if it doesn’t have immediate, real-world utility and commercial viability, it was a waste of time and not worth pursuing.
Unlike Ben Franklin, Edison was not birthed into grinding, suffocating, working class poverty, but he certainly suffered from precarious economic circumstances. Little in the way of White Privilege was attached to Thomas Edison. He was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio and his Canadian-born father ran a highly successful timber and shingle mill, ensuring that the family enjoyed a relatively stable, middle-class life. Then in the mid-1850s a new railroad was built which bypassed Milan and eviscerated the town’s canal trade. The local economy collapsed, taking the family’s business and related financial security with it. The Edison’s were forced to move to Port Huron, Michigan, to start over in severely modest circumstances.
This sudden slide into financial hardship left a permanent impact and attitude on the very young Alva Edison. By age 12, he was working on the Grand Trunk Railroad, wallowing in his White Privilege selling candy, sandwiches, and newspapers to passengers. But this is Edison. The young boy did not just hand out and sell newspapers; he decided to buy an old printing press and established a printing business in the baggage car. He wrote, promoted, printed and distributed his own newspaper, complete with spelling mistakes and his own opinions, to train workers and travellers - at the age of 12….. More here