Comments on: A Gamma Ray Race Through the Fabric of Space-Time Proves Einstein Right

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:05:23 +0000

The thing is, even though this is a supernova, the two gamma rays may not have been given off at the same time. They could possibly have been released .09 seconds within each other, proving Einstein right. They could have been released at exactly the same millisecond and been affected the “grains” of space. Either way this helped me a lot in research for my project about the fabric of the space-time continuum.

By: myhikingboots

myhikingboots — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:47:28 +0000

Not to get off topic, but kudos to the research and the researchers. This is a significant tiny piece of the big picture that we seem to be closing in on. With the new Large Hadron Collider coming online and starting to collect data, a complete unified theory could be just around the corner. What an exciting time to be alive!

By: Flexico

Flexico — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:43:12 +0000

#17~ THANK you! These peeps were starting to give me a headache! XD Mostly the snobbish attitude more than the iffy critique. True genius always has more questions than answers. Seems some people think the internet is the perfect place place to get an illusion of 15 minutes of fame.

By: Joseph (Wietchpec Joe) Kinz Jr.

Joseph (Wietchpec Joe) Kinz Jr. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:41:16 +0000

What I, as a lay person with an interest in physics, mathematics and cosmology, find most disturbing is that other lay persons feel themselves qualified to interpret, much less criticize, a professor (PhD) in these subjects. I prefer to listen intently and astutely to the professionals. Thanks folks.

By: BohrStein

BohrStein — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:45:47 +0000

What worries me is that the rays didn’t arrive at the exact same time.

Neither of the theories proved right nor wrong. However, something is
going on that isn’t understood. A good place to be for a scientist.

The only thing proven here is:

The writer of this article has room for improvement in scientific reasoning.

By: WhatDoWeKnow

WhatDoWeKnow — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:56:51 +0000

So what is the probability if we didn’t observe?

By: John Miesner

John Miesner — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:31:06 +0000

0.9 second in 7.3 billion years is 0.99999999999999999 agreement. Is someone trying to say that this is not an acceptable error? Have you ever heard of anything being measured to this accuracy? Of course you can’t prove Einstein right but he has been proven closer to right than anything else has ever been in all of human history.

By: Ashchaya

Ashchaya — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:51:40 +0000

Seagull Says: “Keep in mind that this light travelled 7,300,000,000 light years, and that the initial explosion was not instantaneous (and in fact could have thrown off different ‘layers’ of gamma ray energies at slightly different times). The study here is within its acceptable error range.”

Nice blinkers.

By: Brian Beverly

Brian Beverly — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:53:09 +0000

Einstein cannot be ‘proved right’, however, we can falsify him. Fortunately for quantum physicists cosmologists understand stellar structure evolution and the early universe perfectly. The experimental error in cosmology is so small that there is virtually no background noise. Why no discussion of their error analysis? Has everyone checked their work?

If space time is grainy then do you see any potential problems or bias by already referring to the quanta of light only in terms of their wavelengths? The fact that no one has mentioned integer multiplies of the ground state worries me. The data may falsify a discrete space-time but this article and the publicity for Einstein is dogmatic, when was the last time a null experiment was published in the NYT? I smell a rat.

Can science move past hero worship?

By: Seagull

Seagull — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:22:59 +0000

#9: The fact that they are 0.9s apart supports the idea that either there is no granularity or that it is so small that it doesn’t affect the shorter wavelenghts as quantum theories suggested. If the granularity was on the order of size predicted by quantum theories, the separation would have been more than 0.9 seconds. Keep in mind that this light travelled 7,300,000,000 light years, and that the initial explosion was not instantaneous (and in fact could have thrown off different ‘layers’ of gamma ray energies at slightly different times). The study here is within its acceptable error range.