On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 04:26:25PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > I am not sure why he says that Einstein was wrong, as I am not sure > Einstein ever asserted that space-time or gravity was fundamental. > To say that Einstein is wrong looks like a cliché in fashion, today.
It's code speak for saying the speed of light is not a constant. It's more a bone to throw to the media to stir up interest, than a real scientific statement. Of course, since the speed of light is just a conversion constant beween our time units and our space units, we are always free to vary the speed of light. It is just a nonlinear reparameterisation of our coordinates. Verlinde's proposal is much, much more than that. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
