Russell, I don't follow you... If you have time to dumb it down a bit, I would appreciate it :)
Best, Telmo. On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
