Rap the key to explain relativity,a youth takes on the wonderful analogies on the quality of time.

DJ Vader told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he had not thought much of physics at school and had spent most of his time playing truant.

But he had been inspired by Einstein’s explanation of his theory, which reads: “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute.

“But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”

DJ Vader said: “At the time I was thinking of me and my girlfriend being together and definitely it does go really quickly.”

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Davies has just explained how we can use wormholes to travel through spacetime. We grab hold of a spontaneously occurring wormhole in the quantum foam (20 orders of magnitude smaller than an atom) and simply stretch it out until its big enough to take Jodie Foster as in the film Stargate, Davies says. (While we’re testing that prediction in the lab, we may as well verify ESP and keep a watch out for passing UFOs, gravitons and strings.)

Templeton Foundation awarded PCW Davies $1M for religion, after Davies, a physics professor, wrote a lot of popular books about the beauty of mysterious and unexplained equations. The award ceremony was in a London cathedral.

In 1995, physicist Davies wrote on pp54-57 of his book ‘About Time’:

‘Whenever I read dissenting views of time, I cannot help thinking of Herbert Dingle… who wrote … Relativity for All, published in 1922. He became Professor … at University College London… In his later years, Dingle began seriously to doubt Einstein’s concept … Dingle … wrote papers for journals pointing out Einstein’s errors and had them rejected … In October 1971, J.C. Hafele [used atomic clocks to defend Einstein] … You can’t get much closer to Dingle’s ‘everyday’ language than that.’

Now, let’s check out J.C. Hafele.

J. C. Hafele writes in Science vol. 177 (1972) pp 166-8 that he uses G. Builder (1958) as analysis for the atomic clocks.

G. Builder (1958) is an article called ‘ETHER AND RELATIVITY’ in Australian Journal of Physics, v11, 1958, p279, which states:

‘… we conclude that the relative retardation of clocks… does indeed compel us to recognise the CAUSAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ABSOLUTE velocities.’

Just to remind ourselves of what Einstein and his verifier Sir Arthur Eddington wrote on this:

‘The special theory of relativity … does not extend to non-uniform motion … The laws of physics must be of such a nature that they apply to systems of reference in any kind of motion. Along this road we arrive at an extension of the postulate of relativity….’ — Albert Einstein, ‘The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity’, Annalen der Physik, v49, 1916.

‘The Michelson-Morley experiment has thus failed to detect our motion through the aether, because the effect looked for — the delay of one of the light waves — is exactly compensated by an automatic contraction of the matter forming the apparatus…. The great stumbing-block for a philosophy which denies absolute space is the experimental detection of absolute rotation.’ — A.S. Eddington, Space Time and Gravitation, Cambridge, 1921, pp. 20, 152.

So the contraction of the Michelson-Morley instrument made it fail to detect absolute motion. This is why special relativity needs replacement with a causal general relativity. I wonder whether Davies will admit the trith about time travel?