What would it take to prove Albert Einstein Wrong?

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  1. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    What would it take to prove Albert Einstein theories wrong?
    I would think that providing an alternative would not be necessary.
    Any one?
     
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  3. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Wrong about what?
     
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  5. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    Pretty sure if you said "no" to the constancy of the speed of light it would put Einstein in a bad mood.
     
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  7. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    Sorry about that.. see edit..OP
     
  8. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    That would depend on what you meant when you said "the speed of light". In a medium or in vacuo? Phase, group or signal velocity?

    (Just trying to anticipate the sort of damn-fool replies we tend to get here from time to time

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  9. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    But he would still have his Noble Prize for the photoelectric effect thang.
     
  10. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    Well what would have to be observed etc?
    Would dark flow phenomena be a candidate? ( for example)
     
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  11. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Could be almost anything. SR and GR are so pervasive that the question you are asking is too open-ended to be answerable.

    Re "dark flow" I'm afraid you will have to explain why you think it might call relativity into question.
     
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  12. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Theories such as Einstein's GR need not be shown to be wrong, rather just that that they have limitations in their applicability.
    We use Newtonian for most everything Earth based, as well as most space endeavours. If GR had truly shown Newtonian to be wrong, we wouldn't be using it.
    You mean obviously Dark Energy? GR has no probs with DE, in fact Einstein was using it to try and disable what GR was telling him about a dynamic universe, when the thoughts of the day, were that the universe was static. As he later exclaimed, that was his greatest blunder.
     
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  13. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    Can you think of any gravitational anomalies that may cause doubt?
     
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    No I mean Dark Flow.
    Dark Energy and Dark Matter/Mass are another issue...
    I read somewhere when Dark Flow was first discovered, that a re-known scientist claimed that the phenomena must be due to physics of another universe....as in current understanding made the phenomena impossible to explain.
    For me it was all to do with researching the "Great Attractor" and later the research into the Shapely Supercluster and then onto the Dark Flow phenomena and it's history. ( claim -counter-claim etc)

    Does the massive gravitational anomaly at the center of this universe pose a problem for GR?

    Is one of the main questions haunting me...

     
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  15. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Not anything that is not already explained with DE and DM. But I could be wrong.
     
  16. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Other then the center of the observable universe centered on any object/thing anywhere, the universe has no center.
    I don't no much about dark flow.
     
  17. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_flow
    expansion ... ?
    some type of field between DE, DM & Expansion that somehow alters space-time.

    a handful of magnets(rock/carbon/alloy)
    traveling in various opposing directions
    all containing their own charge
    all giving off a field?
    all creating a micro field ?
    while interacting with a larger field ?

    i see lines within lines within lines...

    can any potential created field change the perceptual field of relative law ?
    doesnt seem so, it just kinda seems like an alteration to an existing algorithm.
    however, throwing a black hole into the mix ... how do you detect that which is undetectable ?
     
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  18. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    hmm.. It might be of interest for you to look em up...
    Also another major apparent anomaly would be the Eridanus super void... (CMB cold spot) although perhaps not directly related to Einstein but possibly more to the physics that has been generated because of GR.

    So much of Physics today is a follow on from GR if I am not mistaken...
     
  19. Seattle Valued Senior Member

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    That would be impossible. That's the only infinity that I believe in. There is no end to the damn-fool replies that may be coming shortly.
     
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  20. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

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  21. Seattle Valued Senior Member

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    Show that the maximum speed of light isn't an absolute. Show that something can travel faster than the speed of light.
     
  22. dumbest man on earth Real Eyes Realize Real Lies Valued Senior Member

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    The First(and most important) step would be to get properly educated in Albert Einstein's theories. Learned to the point of fully understanding and fully comprehending those theories to the "nth degree"!

    Once you have achieved the level of adeptness or proficiency to even hope to be capable of proving Albert Einstein's theories wrong, you would know exactly what it would take to do so...you would NOT have to ask.
     
  23. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    And of course as we all know Einstein's GR is constantly being tested every day by professionals, using state of the art scientific equipment, with the goal of trying to falsify GR, and so far its passing all tests with flying colours. That is science and what it does...testing, retesting and retesting again.
     
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