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- From: ejeong@bga.com (Euejin Jeong)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Hill's UFO book, a BIG problem for skeptics
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- Date: 7 Jun 1996 16:52:18 GMT
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- Anthony Potts (potts@afsmail.cern.ch) wrote:
-
-
- : On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Euejin Jeong wrote:
-
- : > does not fit to our known physics. I think Hill's analysis holds only in
- : > one point: The crafts seems to obey inertial principle of motion. All other
- : > claims simply don't fit. If the exhaust energy doesn't match the amount
- : > predicted by Newton's third law of motion, either the object is bogus or
- : > our known physics is terribly wrong. We have freedoms to choose here.
- : > Hill's book effectively orient the conclusion toward the side that our
- : > known physics is not complete since, by showing that the craft obeys
- : > inertial principle of motion, he practically eliminated the claim of
- : > mass halluncination or the bogusness of the alien craft. Then the only
- : > choice we have is to fix our physics. Rest of the story is redundant.
- : >
- : >
- : And I think that there is no way enough evidence to say that Newton's
- : laws are that far out. We know that they are an extremely good
- : approximation to relativity in the case of low speed, and the calculation
-
- If the errors have been conspicuous, it would have been corrected long
- time ago. It's like even if we don't know anthing about the dipole electric
- moment, most of the electromagnetic phenomena would be explained without
- much difficulty. The order of the strength is simply too weak to be a
- conspicuous factor for observation of the effect.
-
- : which I did holds in general, not just at low speed. Relativistic
- : mechanics is one of the cornerstones of physics, any new laws MUST
- : replicate it within their structure. I really don't thaink that reports
- : of flying disks are enough to convince us that our physics is to be
- : discarded.
-
- The problem with this statement is that our physics doesn't have such
- luxury of flexibility. Just one "confirmed" violation of a physical law
- is enough to discard the law completely. That's the beauty of physics,
- isn't it ? The universality... Violation of a physical law in Mars will
- be enough to topple the physical law on earth.
-
-
- :Hopefully, people will not take my post as evidence that our
- : laws of physics are wrong, but of course, I suspect that they will.
-
- : I can just see the thread title now "Relativity is proven wrong", before
- : someone writes "An eminent physicist has proved that the existence of
- : flying saucers means that Albert Einstein's principle of Relativity is
- : wrong!"
-
- This is something you may not have to worry about for sure. I believe no
- one is serious who claims Relativity is wrong.
-
- : Just to set things straight, this is not what I think at all. I think
- : that proposing a photon drive for propelling flying saucers is silly.
- : Unless you want to throw out conservation of energy, conservation of
- : momentum, or the basic laws of mechanics, it is just a non-starter. We
- : wouldn't be seeing corn rings, we would be seeing vast areas of destroyed
- : woodland, swathes cut through towns, and rocks melted as the small ships,
- : about the size of cars passed by.
-
- Exactly.
-
- : People being abducted would last about a millisecond before they
- : exploded, and cows would be a lot more than just mutilated. If you have
- : ever seen a shuttle launch, that is the kind of fireworks that you could
- : expect to see around something propelled by photons, except it woud be
- : several hundred times more spectacular. Imagine the same sort of power
- : consumption as a fleet of saturn five rockets, all of this heat being
- : dropped straight into the atmosphere, and you get some impression of what
- : you could expect.
-
- : So, within our framework of physics, photon drives are a no no. If the
- : UFO supporters want to take hills work as a possible truth, then they
- : ought to leave his scientific credentials out of it, as a photon drive is
- : beyond any physics that the man ever wrote about.
-
-
- I can't agree with you more.
-
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