Re: Oops, Know-It-All NASA/Newton NOT

It's difficult for some scientists to acknowledge the serious flaws in
our understanding of inertial mass. There is no theory for the origin of
mass consistent with our understanding of gravity, and there is no
confirmation that F=ma at very small accelerations. Entire galaxies are
comprised of objects with minuscule accelerations, yet without any real
proof, scientists assume linearity down to zero. Faith? NASA's
observations are an indication that all is not well in the religion of
physics these days.

We have made our bed with Einstein for the big stuff, but keep our
beloved Standard Model as a mistress on the side for everything small.
The situation is embarrassing ;-)

Jim McSheehy

> Nancy Lieder wrote:
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> Quotes from ...
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> Spacecrafts pulled by mystery force
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_168000/168410.stm
> Thursday, September 10, 1998
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> It seems that space probes travelling through the solar system are not
> behaving according to the known law of gravity, puzzling scientists. Our
> science editor Dr David Whitehouse reports. According to Nasa's John
> Anderson it is a real puzzle. He said: "We've been working on this
> problem for several years, and we accounted for everything we could
> think of."  It is all to do with the motion of space probes in the outer
> solar system. In 1972, Nasa launched Pioneer 10 to Jupiter. Since then
> scientists have maintained regular radio contact with it as it passed
> Jupiter and sped into deep space. By studying the doppler shift of the
> radio signals from the craft scientists have been able to calculate how
> fast it is travelling.
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