physicists cannot agree on how the Universe works

Sep 13, 2026 Last reply: 2 weeks ago 30 Replies

His unified field. There do seem to be others.

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"for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear simple and wrong". Jan Panteltje can find them every time.

Jan Panteltje doesn't seem to be able to read. The proposition that gravity waves travel at the speed of light is based on the observation of two neutron stars merging, where the charges in the gravitational wave emission gave enough warning of the merger to let optical telescopes focus on the site f the merger and capture the visual consequences of the event.

Jan not knowing about the existence of that bit of evidence is just ignorance.

So photons are now Le Sage particles. Nice one Jan.

And so wrong.

Ohm Law describes current flowing through a resistor. It certainly doesn't describe current flowing through a rectifier junction - and electron travelling through a vacuum can serve as a rectifier junction.

Jan's speciality.

Electrons are elementary particle. They can't get any simpler.

They don't seem to exist, except in the brains of fantasists like Jan, which makes it difficult to do experiments on them.

Really?

And misunderstand to mean what you'd like it to mean.

The Le Sage thory doesn't work, but Jan is happy with it. He is open to lots of other nonsense but seems to reject anything complicated enough to represent reality.

Things get ever more interwsting, today I was reading this about gravity and G:

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Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years. Gravity still didn’t make sense Date: September 20, 2026 Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summary: A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpectedly from another leading result, deepening a 225-year-old physics puzzle. The discrepancy is tiny, but for one of nature’s most fundamental constants, it is large enough to keep scientists wondering whether hidden experimental errors or something more surprising is involved.

So the G is now lower Their value for G was 6.67387 × 10-11 meters3/kilogram/second2. Quote: That result is 0.0235% lower than the value obtained in the French experiment in 2007 end quote

Me: Now IF the measurements are both correct, than I would think "gravity decreases over time". If Le Sage particles are 'gravity' they may slow down over time, or less are availabe. Things like expanding universe comes to mind, and also if we live in a sea of black holes spitting out Le Sage particles those black holes will by definition exhaust over time, Keep it simple, and BIG implication if gravity here decreases, oh wait, _here_ decreases. in this galaxy with black hole at the center we are in Fun!

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Except that at that rate of decline, gravity would vanish in less than 5000 years.

Maybe not.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Could be exponential.

I know for sure that gravity keeps inceasing.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Perhaps a little levity will restore the balance to gravity.

True, thought about that too. Need to know a lot more about how they measured it (both experiments). Influence of Moon position at the time, earth orbit, solar system position in the galaxy, so many things that could influence it.

Or eating a bit less ;-)

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The universe is expanding, so gravity gets spread more thinly. The rubber sheet is getting stretched.

It's 13 billion years since the Big Bang and we've been measuring "g" for perhaps 200 years, not all that accurately. If gravity has decreased over time, our measurements really aren't accurate enough to detect that decrease.

The "rubber sheet" analogy seems unlikely to be useful. The same anaology puts dimples in the sheet around planets, deeper holes around stars and doesn't help at all when thinking about black holes.

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