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Why God Doesn't Exist
In  Mathematical
Physics, space is a
physical object
Watch carefully,
Cardinal Al !
Now that he's sleeping,
I'll turn him into totally
empty space.

    Relativists routinely and casually treat space as a physical object:

    " the gyroscopes... were intended to measure how space and time are 'warped'
      by the presence of the Earth, and, more profoundly, if and how much the Earth's
      rotation 'drags' space-time around with it" [1]

    " Careful observations of Mercury showed that the actual value of the precession
      disagreed with that calculated from Newton's theory... In general relativity, this
      remaining precession, or change of orientation within its plane, is explained by
      gravitation being mediated by the curvature of spacetime."  [2]

    " Gravitational lensing is predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General relativity.
      Instead of light from a source traveling in a straight line (in three dimensions), it
      is bent by the presence of a massive body, which distorts spacetime." [3]

    " A spinning black hole modifies the fabric of space near it" [4]

    " a 'soccer-ball' model of space... space has a non trivial topology... Poincaré space
      may be represented by a dodecahedron... such a space is positively curved" [5]

    Obviously, the mathematicians are not saying that space or space-time is just a mathematical abstraction useful to explain
    a theory. They are saying that space or space-time is like your couch or your mattress. Your couch deforms when you place
    your bowling ball on its surface and your bed warps when you lay upon it. This is the sense in which the mathematicians
    are using the adjectives warped, curved, and bent in their descriptions. The idiots of relativity are telling you what happens
    to a physical object when another one comes in contact with it.

    Just in case you continue to harbor doubts, the mathematicians state it so that even a baby can understand it. The members
    of the establishment claim that space, you know... the dark stuff you see in the night sky,  is made of particles:

    " The existence of virtual pairs helps to explain a process known as pair production.
      The background is always seething with these pairs of particles. However, in order
      not to violate physical laws, the pairs always return back to the vacuum before they
      are observed directly. " [6]

    " We must first understand what quantum mechanics tells us about empty space....
      (p. 577)  we cannot be sure how much matter there is...in 'empty space'... matter
      can spontaneously appear, then disappear. Whenever this happens, each particle
      that is created is accompanied by an antiparticle... Pairs of every conceivable
      particle and antiparticle are constantly being created and destroyed at every
      location across the universe...the Lamb shift, provides powerful support for the
      idea that every point in space, all across the universe, is seething with virtual pairs
      of particles and antiparticles... (p. 578) all space is seething with virtual pairs of
      particles and antiparticles (p. 579) [7]

    Unfortunately, the mathematicians rarely clarify the only point of any significance and importance in their entire dissertation:

    Is space an empty bag in which we find matter, energy, virtual particles,
    radiation, etc., or is space itself made of virtual particles, energy, or whatever?

    This is the ONLY question an idiot of Mathematics needs to answer. Otherwise, he is chasing his tail around.

    Fortunately, there are other instances where there are no two ways about it. A relativist unambiguously states that space
    itself is made of particles:

    " there are today 550 million photons in every cubic meter of space... the universe
      thus consists almost entirely of microwave photons. (p. 561)" "The creation of
      matter from energy (p. 576) "It has been known for years that a highly energetic
      gamma ray (photon) can convert its energy into pairs of particles and antiparticles"
      (p. 578) "Where did the energy come from to achieve this materialization? Recall
      that the Big Bang was like the center of a black hole.  A vast supply of gravitational
      energy was associated with the intense gravity of this cosmic singularity." (p. 579)   [8]

    " The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles
      possessing negative energy." [9]

    " Dirac proposed that a ‘sea’ of negative-energy electrons fills the universe…
      Sometimes, however, one of these negative energy particles could be lifted
      out of this Dirac sea to become a positive energy particle. But when lifted out,
      it would leave behind a hole in the sea which would act exactly like a positive
      energy electron with a reversed charge. These he interpreted as the proton,
      and called his paper of 1930 A theory of electrons and protons." [10]

    " Einstein himself said that so far as his general relativity is concerned, space
      (actually space-time) and the gravitational field are the same things..." [11]

    " There can be no space nor any part of space without gravitational potentials;
      for these confer upon space its metrical qualities, without which it cannot be
      imagined at all. The existence of the gravitational field is inseparably bound
      up with the existence of space." [12]

    " According to quantum field theory, empty space actually consists of varying
      electro-magnetic fields." [13]

    " Another surprising entity, and the real surprise is that it can be described as
      an entity at all, is the vacuum. Common sense tells us that a vacuum is nothing,
      or more precisely that it is empty space. However, in general relativity theory
      the vacuum isn't simply that... For quantum physicists the vacuum is much
      more complicated...Throughout the vacuum, energy can appear as a result of a
      quantum fluctuation..." (p. 100) "experiments really have shown that the vacuum
      can produce particle and antiparticle pairs...All this is possible because of the
      quantum properties of the vacuum." (p. 102) [14]

    " quantum theory predicts that no volume of space can be perfectly empty" [15]

    " In physics, the word nothing is not used in any technical sense. A region of
      space is called a vacuum if it does not contain any matter. But it can contain
      physical fields." [16]

    " There is no such thing as 'empty space' anywhere in nature. There are only
      apparent 'voids' that SEEM not to contain matter or energy, but at the level of
      the quantum world, even 'empty' voids are teeming with activity as particles
      come and go; created out of quantum fluctuations in any of a variety of fields
      in nature." [17]

    Indeed, some fanatics claim that space is the most rigid object you can imagine:

    " The most important thing to keep in mind about Einstein's Universe is the fantastic
      stiffness of space -- of the rubber sheet, if you like. Let's put it into perspective:
      let's say the magnitude of the stiffness of a rubber sheet is about 1 x Using this
      criterion, the stiffness of solid steel is about 100 000 000 000, or 10*(11). Space has
      a magnitude of about 10    , a one with 43 zeroes after it! Space is a billion  billion  
      billion times stiffer than steel! ... In other words, the enormous but not infinite
      stiffness of Einstein's space-time tells us that, while space is not infinitely rigid, it is
      very, very, very rigid. In fact, odd as it sounds, space is the most rigid stuff in the
      Universe." (p. 20) [18]

    And then, again, the mathematicians will amend their assumptions when it helps sell the theory they are peddling at the
    moment:

    " Space is not empty, but it's not exactly crowded, either." [19]

    Therefore, the mathematicians may in retrospect change their story and argue that space is really empty  -- a genuine
    vacuum -- or partially empty or that they were alluding to an abstract mathematical object useful to explain a theory, or
    that they do not really know, but the reality is that General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics collapse if space is not a
    sandbox. The official view of Mathematical Physics is that space is made of particles and that this whole 'shebang' is
    an enormous geometric figure, specifically shaped like a sphere.

    " The expanding universe can be compared to the expanding surface of an inflating
      balloon.” (pg. 555. Figure 28-1)  [20]

    There is no such notion as a genuine void, vacuum, or nothing in the whole of Mathematical Physics.
This swimming pool is kid's
stuff, Bill! If you think you have
trouble moving through water,
wait till you get a chance to move
through space. That stuff is
stiffer than steel !


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