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Eric Baird
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Relativity researcher:
http://www.thenewrelativity.com/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Baird/research

Redesigning and redefining relativity theory for the Twenty-First Century.

Geometric. Dynamic. Acoustic. Relativistic. Gravitomagnetic.
It might be related to the restrictions that got put into place a while ago, restricting what data NASA is allowed to publish, that relate to climate change. The White House want editorial control of science data, and want to to be able to say stuff about warming without NASA contradicting them.
February 8, 2026 at 6:42 PM
That's why it's called Skynet.
February 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Yes, it's embarrassing.
But we're broke. The Starmer government was supposed to nationalise the railways and the water companies and set up a new renewable energy company to supply the Grid directly. But we have no money, we're out of the EU, and now we also have to spend more on defence.
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If he's announced that he's unilaterally cancelling the contracts, and maliciously wrecking the craft that SpaceX was paid to develop, so that nobody else can continue the work, then perhaps it's reasonable to demand a refund.
June 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
People who pay for these museums through taxation specifically so that the orgs DON'T have to prostitute themselves for money are entitled to be annoyed when the CEOs start using their orgs to promote dubious businesses in return for cash.

Don't like "relentless negativity"? Change your behaviour.
June 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Musk announced that SpaceX would be unilaterally breaking its US government contracts, immediately starting to disassemble the craft that the Government paid it to provide, and jeopardising US lives ... to retaliate against Trump's "maybe".
Trump can now declare Musk provably unfit to run SpaceX.
June 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Einstein compared GR1916 against a Keplerian ellipse on a flat background. Newton's 1704 variable-density aether was not "flat", and Einstein's 1911 paper then also generates Newtonian time-curvature.
So Einstein fiddled the comparison. A more valid one would be between E's and N's curved spacetimes
January 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to comment in Leverrier's calculations. :(
I usually focus on really simple things, which is where Einstein's work often goes wrong, or has to invoke biased assumptions to save it.
Perturbation analysis is well outside my skill-set. :(
January 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
With hindsight, I could also have included Henry Moseley, who was expected to win a 1916 Nobel Prize and become the most celebrated physicist of the Twentieth Century, at the age of only 27.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M...
But Moseley enlisted for WW1, and was shot by a sniper in Gallipoli in 1915.
Henry Moseley - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I think the salute, commonly known as the "Roman salute" (hand on heart, then outstretched arm, palm-down), was actually used by America until the Nazis adopted it, and the USA then decided that it was a good idea to drop the dratted thing and switch to something else.
January 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Defiance is not to be tolerated? Because, like THE EXISTENCE OF THE ENTIRE SODDING UNITED STATES only came about because the people rose up against an authoritarian body that imposed its wishes on the population, and could not be removed by any peaceful mechanism.
The SCotUS is the new dictatorship.
January 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Well, Elon's trying to intervene because he feels really strongly that nobody should be able to just buy into a social media platform whose values they don't like, and try to change it against the wishes of its users.

Because that'd be such a terribly, horribly wrong thing to do, wouldn't it? 🤔
November 18, 2024 at 2:38 AM
* General relativity only works if moving objects ALWAYS distort the light-metric

* Special relativity only works if moving objects NEVER distort the light-metric

"Never" is not a subset of "always". These are two opposing requirements, that cannot both be satisfied in the same universe.

SR ⊈ GR
November 17, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Did someone use it to make a self-replicating encyclopedia?

Good proof-of-concept ...
November 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM