
Roy Masters is back at what he does best:: turning science on its head with his thesis Gravity Driven Universe.
According to Roy, gravity is the dominant driving force in the universe and a Big Bang could not possibly have occurred without gravity.
Roy is offering a free PDF 52 page white paper downloadable at the same link. Read it over like I did.
Incidently, get a look at his book cover. Uncanny resemblance to Einstein, isn't there?
There are many an issue with the big bang theory. Relativity is holding physics in a death grip at this moment.
Gravity flows from its singularity with the big bang equivalent of a big whoosh. Curving with rotational angular precession as the winding of a ball of string, one flowing dimension becomes a shimmering three-dimensional sphere.
Somehow I don't think a shimmering whoosh will do much to loosen that death grip ....
Gravity, as first cause, flows as an ethereal background force, concentrating its density by spinning into first things. From what you are about to read, the author challenges anyone to either dispute it, or provide a better explanation.
I took that quote from page 11 of the downloadable white paper. To me it sounds like a cosmological argument with respect to "First Cause."
Gravity as First Cause. First cause of the Big Bang Particle? Does the Big Bang need to have a first cause? Gravity sounds reasonable but not as a pulling force but as a pushing force.
the author challenges anyone to either dispute it, or provide a better explanation
That's not the scientific method. Science pits theory against experiment. Theorists try to come up with theories that both fit all known experimental data, and can be disproved by new experiments. Experimentalists in their turn try to devise ways of performing experiments that disprove these theories.
As far as I can see GD contains no experimentally falsifiable math except perhaps the rather mysterious variables tacked onto the relativity equations on the last page of the GD paper with a footnote saying that solving these "is not an easy task".
The challenge then is not for scientists to find a "better explanation" than GD, but for GD to determine how its equations can apply to scientific experiments. With the onus on suggesting an experiment whereby its equations make predictions that differ from another theory.
I would think that another part of a scientific method is discussing the subject and to also derive some type of experimention out of it.
We can't hardly get past this claim and that claim and the name calling, and disapproval of a man's faith or trying to redesign his challenge.
I still have the question for those who care to try to answer it: Does Big Bang need a first cause? If you don't think it does, there is no need to discuss this here because Roy's thesis depends on accepting Gravity as the First Cause.
Plasma...
Gravity is too weak of a force - The magnetic field generated by hydrodynamic plasma in te universe explains everything.
Roy Masters is some nutball Christian cultist who didn't go to college. Just thought you all should know....
Roy Masters isn't even a scientist, he's a Religous rightwing commentator.
I take it your thesis is that you must necessarily be a "scientist" to publish a theory. Do you know with certainty Roy Masters has not studied his thesis subject, or are you just so lost for a reply to the subject you go for his identity and character?
Just wondering...
What I'm saying is it will take more than the opinion of a Radical literal creationist who, has also said that "men should be spiritual and moral leaders in the family, correcting the unstable emotionalism of women" to "Blow away the Big Bang Theory!"
Gee, call someone a Christian, and they couldn't POSSIBLY know anything about science.
Well here's a question from a Christian...
...if the Big Bang is true, then why is the universe not only still expanding, but accelerating?
Kinda puts a crimp in that Big Bang theory, doesn't it?
Kinda puts a crimp in that Big Bang theory, doesn't it?
No... not really, you can still apply the Big Bang Theory to a model of a universe that is not just expanding but accelerating. There is a large body of evidence that our universe was once a singularity, and the universes acceleration really doesn't counter any of it. However it does change the models possible for what our universe currently looks like however.
Scientists are at a loss to explain what could be causing this acceleration, but it is one of the hottest research topics of modern astrophysics. Evidently, there is a mysterious force, dubbed dark energy, which dominates the universe and counteracts the attractive force of gravity on very large scales. Astronomers suggest that 70% of the universe is dark energy and that the normal matter of stars and life composes only about 5%. The remaining 25% of the universe is thought to be dark matter — matter we cannot see, but that scientists believe exists. The repulsive effects of dark energy could possibly be explained with modified theories of gravity or string theory. However, the struggle to understand dark energy is also resurrecting the history of science. Two promising theories for dark energy are quintessence, a dynamic energy of empty space, and the cosmological constant, a steady energy first introduced by Albert Einstein.
Big Bang is a theory and so is Gravity Driven Universe. If you believe you can debunk the thesis of this man here is his link to his live science shows where you can go at him in public.
Be sure to post when you will be taking him on so I can tune in.
Yeah, Einstein would be ridiculed on THIS page! Roy masters IS the Einstein of today. I read his thesis. Roy, like Einstein intuitively gets information and Roy said on one of his radio shows that HE WILL get electricity from gravity and I don't doubt he will do it. Roy doesn't learn from others, he learns as Einstein did and leads others. So, he's religious or spiritual, too? Good for him! Interesting both men are of Jewish blood. Seems God, the author of intuition always uses the Jews to bring His Big Revelations through. This Masters fella was more than refreshing to listen to. I think he's got it and he's going to finish where Einstein left off. Something about him is different. Very different....
Welcome to Newsvine, Brande. I've been on here a few years, haven't seen Einstein ridiculed yet. Maybe I missed it. Do you have a link?
As for God making jews smarter or wiser than other people ... is that prejudice or do you have some statistics to back it up? And did you know Einstein was not jewish, but an agnostic?
The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events... He has no use for the religion of fear and equally little for social or moral religion. --Einstein "Ideas and Opinions"
Maybe God decided to makes the jews so smart they stop believing in God ...
Einstein was a highly knowledgeable physicist who wrote highly technical papers.
Something about him is different. Very different...
Thanks for your comments Brande. ;-)
Hearing things never heard before is different.
Roy sees space as filled with a “time wind” consisting of a rivers of particles racing in every conceivable direction simultaneously. As a result he sees light as a particle accelerated to “the speed of light” by the time wind. Before going into much detail, this raises certain points. First, neither push gravity nor kinetic ether is a new concept. Both ideas have been repeatedly rejected for good reasons. They go back in various forms to 1690 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sage's_theory_of_gravitation). Secondly, if light is being dragged along by “time wind”, how is it that we are able to generate and propagate electromagnetic radiation of different wavelengths and frequencies and therefore energy levels? Also, if this time wind contains so much energy, how come it does not rip our hand apart when we pass it through space?
Looking at his specific writings we can make the following comments:
Finding God in Physics
pg. 113
"Contrary to the traditional view of lightning, I believe that wherever a column of moist air possesses sufficient density and reaches high enough into the atmosphere, the everpresent electric charge surrounding our planet is conducted to ground as lightning bolts."
Clouds move through the air and pick up static charge. In addition, clouds contain ice crystals. The crystals smash into each other further enhancing their surface charge. When the associated charge density (voltage) exceeds the dielectric strength of the air, it discharges to the ground as lightning.
pages 150-151
"light does not need its emitting source for power."
Light needing its emitting source for power is, however, commonly observed, measured and engineered.
"Light slows down through the denser media of air, water, or glass, but upon emerging from the other side of any of those media, light instantly accelerates back to its precise former velocity."
Photons don’t “slow down” in a piece of transparent material. Their net speed is reduced because they keep getting interrupted in their motion by striking electronic bonds in the solid. The electrons absorb the photons and then re-emit them in the original direction of propagation. This occurs again as the photons hit the net set of bonds and so on. This process takes a finite amount of time and thus the net speed is reduced.
"If I throw a baseball through a plate glass window, will it emerge from the other side at the same velocity? Of course not. Then how on earth do photons do it?? From what source do they derive the power to regain their velocity?"
The loss of energy from light is indicated in the lowering of its frequency and not in "slowing down". Blue light has more quantum energy per photon than red light. When light passes through a "clear" solid, it can experience lowering of its frequency and/or a drop in its intensity.
"light is either pushed by an ether "wind", or "light has some kind of infinite, self-regulating, internal propulsion. Obviously, the first is the only plausible line of inquiry".
Light exists as an electric wave interchanging into a magnetic wave and back again. It does not draw on internal propulsion because its energy isn't spent by pure motion.
Gravity Thesis
Page 14: “Do you want evidence that space-time is a three-dimensional shaping force from the smallest symmetries of fundamental particles and beyond to the shaping of stars? Then ask your professor why raindrops are spherical; he will tell you it is surface tension. Then ask him to explain why perfect ball bearings form when molten metal is poured into space. There is no surface tension there.”
Molten metal in space forms balls because of surface tension. The idea that there is no surface tension in space is silly.
Page 15: “Because of compression gravity, the earth will never cool or lose its magnetic field always rotating from the very same force spinning the elements at the quantum level.”
Also
“Massive bodies capable of magnetic crystallization at their core explain why planets rotate on their axes.”
First, the Earth’s core is not cooling or cooling as fast as one might otherwise expect because it contains
radioactively decaying potassium, uranium and thorium sustaining its heat. Secondly, planets rotate because they can only form from matter which is in a high state of angular momentum (swirling in the same plane). The matter comes together under gravity and the remaining spin represents the conservation of the cumulative angular momentum. In the specific case of the Earth, there is a
strong theory that 4.5 billion years ago a large object struck it off-center creating debris that produced the moon and setting the Earth spinning making it a planet. There is, however, no continuous force being reapplied over and over again to the Earth’s rotation.
Page 25: “The gravity field within a certain type of rotating wheel is not equivalence; it is real gravity. It
requires no uniform acceleration; has no resistance; flows forever continuously doing work (work being pushing astronauts against the interior and keeping them grounded).”
Also
“As a space station rotates forever with 360° of gravitational force radiating from the axis against the
peripheral wall, it will produce work forever.”
First, the static pressing of astronauts does not constitute work. Secondly, a rotating object represents a
very finite, single state of energy. If it performed work, it would have to lose energy from its rotation. To produce work forever the rotating space station would represent an infinite amount of energy. We can, however, stop the rotation with a very finite amount of energy and the rotation will not begin again on its own.
Page 27: “If there is no gravitational field, what then could push a weightless astronaut against the peripheral wall of the space station?”
This is simply centripetal force toward the center.
Page 31: “Electrons actually spin from the field and not the copper coil. It is the changing magnetic state thatmpulls electrons from the field into the copper windings.”
There are no electrons in the electric field. The field emanates from the electrons flowing through the wire.
On a recent broadcast of his Saturday science program, Roy said that the Earth’s magnetic field is due to iron in the core forming a “perfect magnet”. The Earth’s core is largely iron with a little nickel. This cannot form a permanent magnet. Such material is ferromagnetic at room temperature requiring an external magnetic field to bring out its own amplified field. In the case of the Earth’s core, however, even this does not apply. The core is hotter than the Curie temperature of all ferromagnetic materials
and all magnetic material in the core is only paramagnetic responding only slightly to an external field. It is generally regarded that the Earth’s mild magnetic field is generated from slight electrical currents forming from the molten metal flow in the outer core which in turn is enhanced by coupling with ferro- and para-magnetic material throughout the Earth’s entire structure.
Roy: "2+2 = 22. A child can see it! You put one next to the other and you get 22. The establishment tries to confuse you on the issue. They cannot face the truth."
Response: "But Roy, that's not how it works. You add the values. You do not place the numbers adjacent to each other."
Roy: "You're trying to confuse the issue. I understand physics because I can see through the confusion."
You're in Easy Mode. If you prefer, you can use XHTML Mode instead. |