[TheForge] unimpressive BS-No! OT OT OT OT OT OT OT OT

[Andy Vida]

Mike Linn wrote:
> 
> Excellent book...but Im still having trouble envisioning 26 dimensions  ;^)
> especially when their all wrapped up really tiny

	For a good 20 years I've been thinking these particle physics
	d00dz have needed to start from a clean sheet of paper.  The
	theories have become so convolutedly ad hoc that I'm not sure
	what value they present anymore.  The fact that they have had
	to build it ad hoc tells me that at least some of the basic
	assumptions may be questionable.  Your assumptions build your
	world.  Einstein's assumption was that C is the universal
	limiting velocity.  I've never found there to be any firm basis
	for this.  The fact that he massaged the Lorentz transforms to
	be consistent with this assumption does not prove that he was
	correct.  It just means that be built a set of equations consistent
	with his assumption.  I'm not saying he's wrong, but that I see
	no proof that he is correct.  That empirical measurements confirm
	several of the "predictions" implied in the theory doesn't prove
	that the assumptions about C as ULV are correct.  They only prove
	that bodies operating within the framework of his theory display
	certain predicted behaviors.  The one does not necessarily imply
	the other.

	About 25 years ago, several observatories discovered a group of
	distant objects with red shifts equivalent to 7C and 21C.  As I
	recall, those have not been explained as any equipment malfunction,
	calibration error, or error in observation or calculation.

	Can I accelerate a wrought iron particle beyond C?  I'd like to  
	think so. :)