SR photons contract; GR photons expand |
Adapted for the Internet from: Why God Doesn't Exist |
Fig. 1 |
Special Relativists claim that if you travel at any speed greater than zero, your body contracts. General Relativists claim that more space is created as space-time expands, and the only reason you don't blow up is that gravity and EM fields hold you together. However, they explain Olbers' Paradox by claiming that the expansion of space stretches the photons that make up your body! So SR predicts that bodies traveling at near-c should contract while GR predicts that bodies which have photons buzzing between atoms will expand. |
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Universe is expanding. While it does so it creates more space between galaxies. The gravity operating between the galaxies is insufficient to overcome the spatial expansion. This explains why they are flying apart from each other. The mathematicians claim to have verified this phenomenon by measuring the red shift, a technique that tells us |
of how fast a celestial object is running away from you. However, the Andromeda Galaxy is rushing towards us and will probably collide with the Milky Way in a few million years. There should be no reason for the two galaxies to come together if space is being created between us which cannot be overcome by our mutual gravity. |
I tell you, Bill, that, hic, the wine shrunk. A pink fly zoomed by and suddenly, hic, there was only half a barrel left. |
Sure Al! Come on now. Upsy-daisy Off to beddy-bye! |