Great, insightful posts, guys. Thank you!

Larry

Agreed. I find it ironic that they killed or drove away to the Allies many of the very people who might've given them the atomic bomb, first…

Greg is spot on with his analysis. Are you just making stuff up? Please, if you don't know enough about a topic to make an intelligent statement about it, save other people the confusion. This new evidence is supposed to be a tribute to Einstein, not a mockery of his theories by an erroneous explanation.

Marveloseus – Thankfully I didn't offer any of my own theories (if I had any), so it's probable that my comments had no real influence on your beliefs. We march on in our search for the truth. And I am sure that is what we both want.

David – I won't argue with you there.. The math is all there… always has been… We just need to know what we are looking at so we can know how to do the math.

Talendear – Einstein's theories also seem logical to me. I made a conscious point to say "I KIND OF wish.." that they never heard of them. Of course many great ideas were built on previous thinkers. I know that. My point was that when one hears a theory that has such a large following, it may detour or discourage that person from pursuing an idea they may have.. just for the simple fact that they fear being ridiculed. So an idea lost.. I'm not talking about "dumping" theories.
It may not take another Einstein or Newton to come up with an epiphany that could change mankind as we know it. Just takes an idea. I have noticed just in this forum over the past months of many posters offering their thoughts and ideas only to be called idiots.. Then notice they never seem to post again.. It's a pity.

Greg –
Are you sure? All of our experiments and observations have been done 'locally'.. When we observe a star 100,000 light years away, we aren't looking at the light 'there', we are looking at it here. After the light traveled 100,00 years (we assume).. As it hits our retinas. Therefore it is a "local" observation. Maybe there is an intergalactic 'autobahn' for light and it slows down (or speeds up when it hits our galaxy (or solar system).. Somebody here commented that light can be slowed in a laboratory. I haven't looked that one up but if that is true then why wouldn't nature be able to do it? Okay, okay.. That may be stretching it… Anyway, you get my point, I'm sure.

"The sound seems to speed up as you get closer then slows down as you pass and move farther away."

This is just plain wrong – although it illustrates your misconception about looking "as if the light is going faster than 'c'. "

The pitch of the sound changes, not the speed – this is analogous to the frequency of light – not its speed. Independent observers may disagree about the frequency of a light source – but they will never disagree about its velocity. And the velocity of light in free space never appears to be anything other than 'c'.

The very fact that the predictions of General Relativity keep being proven correct over and over means that its either correct or we need to learn where it isn't correct. That is why all of these experiments are done in the first place. And if someone comes along that is more intelligent or has a better theory than Einstein's, I doubt that hearing the theory of General Relativity will keep that individual from making it known. After all, they wouldn't be much of a genius if they were held back because of something someone said 90+ years ago. As for another Einstein or Newton, I don't think anyone will see another one. After all, the work done by them has already been done. Besides, the genius that it takes to pull off coming up with these world changing theories seems to come in multi-generational gaps so it could very well be another 50 to 100 years or more before someone comes up with a truly revolutionary theoretical addition to physics like those provided by Newton and Einstein.

It depends on how do you define "correct". If you look at the "right places", you'll not see relativistic effects and could equally say that there must be something missing. In effect, SR and GR brought a huge bit of "hidden" physics.
Phenomenae requiring SR and GR for proper understanding and interpretation was always there, but they remained somewhat hidden until the right questions were asked and new experiments showed them to us.

In a sense, GR is indeed "wrong" as it depends on some assumptions and clearly doesn't contain quantum mechanics. Further models and theories will eventually show that GR was only an approximation of XYZ theory at some specific conditions.

But be careful, some things as "faster-than-light travels" through wormholes could as easily be wishful thinking as new physics waiting for us.

What you say is only true in Special Relativity, which handles the special case of frames of reference that are NOT in motion (hence it's called 'Special Relativity' as it handles only this special case which does NOT exist in the real world and is a "thought experiment" only).

General relativity took a lot longer to figure out since it handles the case of frames in motion and multiple frames in motion relative to each other. And it covers multiple viewpoints within a single frame of reference IE- everything in a space ship is in the same frame of reference as the space ship itself, but can move around within that space ship.

In the case of the spaceship traveling at 90% 'c' you can turn on a flashlight and shine it in the direction of travel and the light emitted is still only traveling at 'c'.

You'd think that the speed of the ship would add to the speed of the light from the flashlight. It doesn't as the speed of the ship is it's own frame of reference and is the only place that a measurement of the speed of light from the flashlight is relevant.

To other frames of reference it may look as if the light is going faster than 'c', whereas in even other frames it may look as if it's slowing down. The ONLY frame that matters is the frame of reference the light is in. The illusion of faster than 'c' is only that, an illusion. That light is still limited by 'c' and the only place that matters is in the space ship itself.

Another example is a train passes you as it's blowing it's whistle and the pitch gets higher as it gets closer the as it passes you and recedes in the distance the pitch of the whistle gets lower. But the engineer blowing the whistle hears only a single pitch, the true pitch of the whistle. The sound seems to speed up as you get closer then slows down as you pass and move farther away. The actual speed of the sound never really changed, though in your frame of reference standing next to the tracks it seemed too.

In General Relativity the speed limit is still 'c', however this is only true within it's own frame of reference. In any other frame it's irrelevant, it has no meaning.

The idea of the only frame of reference being relevant is the one you are in is what allows physics to work as well on a train going 80MPH as it does at your house going 0MPH. Something like a microwave oven will operate identically in either case. If it weren't true then different microwave ovens would need to be made that worked on trains.

There is plenty of empirical proof that 'c' is truly the speed limit in the universe (remember energy and mass are the same, so if it's true for light it's true for solid objects too). This tells us that there is an underlying structure to the universe that forces this limitation.

There are some nice theories that attempt to uncover this underlying structure, only time will tell which one will provide us with the answers we seek.

In the meantime it's best to remember that current cosmology is based on hypothetical assumptions (though some of these hypotheses are based on theories like General Relativity they are still HYPOTHESES) and that until some of these hypotheses are actually tested and verified it's a waste of time, effort and funding to continue down these paths.

Let's quit playing so much 'what if' and do some actual science!

In regards to Einstein: I love him! I hope we have another Einstein in the making to draw us an even better picture of this crazy universe we live in.

Much of what we assume about the expansion of the universe is based on the idea that light travels at a constant speed most of the time, very close to the upper limit of 'c'.

If this ISN'T true then the light we are seeing is NOT a true representation of expansion and would in fact tend to support a steady state universe. Now I want to point out that this is NOT 'tired light' I'm talking about, but a change in it's speed not it's energy.

However when observed from other frames of reference light can SEEM to be traveling faster than 'c'.

A key concept of Relativity is that no frame of reference is special and things like 'c' are only valid within it's particular frame of reference.

So while we may see light exceeding 'c' from our frame of reference, within it's own frame of reference it isn't going any faster than 'c'.

It's this key component of Relativity that makes things such as time travel impossible since this assumes a preferred frame of reference.

The fact that there is a limit to the speed of light exposes that dimensionality is the lowest building block of our universe. As the 19th century was the Golden Age of kinetic physics, and the 20th century was the Golden Age of electromagnetic physics, the 21st century can be the golden age of dimensional physics.

We just need to move past the 20th century!

In any case, it's a pity we will never have dead-resurrection technology because I would dearly love to have all those that lambasted his work, back in the day, as "Jewish Physics" eat it. No, really, I want them to eat every work of science that built off Einstein's; it's the only way they can realize how horribly, horribly wrong they were.

That's what I call good science, despite this observation, these guys are careful not to be so certain/arrogant that they have CONCLUSIVELY proven Einstein's theories.

Before anyone starts', i'm NOT saying they're wrong, or there's some 'mystical energy field controlling everyone', but they have acknowledged that Einstein came up with a very good model of describing certain aspects of the universe (remember, even he came across problems & holes in his theories), and have been able to test it using sound, evidence-based observations.