Recent content by Olorin

:biggrin: Maybe because he should somehow be able to learn from past mistakes and ethically questionnable behaviour? We all know too well the "Science's Buffon" reputation of Ethan precedes him in academic circles, but it is not a reason enough to not give him a door to mend it all. Still, we...

It seems that Ethan didn't bother too much to do the needed research for his last article. All he should have done is go to the Triton Station blog to get some insights about the status of the debate, like here: https://tritonstation.com/2023/05/19/commentary-on-wide-binaries/ or here...

Whenever you compute a physical quantity and find infinity, you’re wrong. Energy density can’t be infinite, it doesn’t make any sense. The prediction of singularities in GR points towards the theory not being quite right. But it is not the kind of not right that destroys its relevance...

Please source your claim of facts and observations in disfavor of MOND. Actually there are none, the MOND conjecture is as alive as ever and getting all of his predictions right. Most recent and serious studies are clearly disfavoring GR+DM. See...

Even worse then since in order for the SMoC ( Standard Model of Cosmology ) to be valid we need to falsify SMoP ( Standard Model of Particle) as SMoC needs exotic matter not predicted by the SMoP. So in all logic non SMoC is compatible with SMoP ( with massive neutrinos), but SMoC is only...

This might very well be the core of a proper rebuttal to the SEP violations claims. It still remains to be seen how these tidal forces are formally computed and applied to galactic systems in a proper peer review paper. On the other hand it seems that the authors have taken great precautions in...

Amazing! We reached the goal of OP. We have a clear experimental situation that if realized would falsify GR in a very profound way. I guess we would also agree that in this case there is no way we could say: GR needs modifications or extensions, it is incomplete etc... as this would be of the...

At least we can agree on some non-dicey outcomes from equivalence principle violations and implications for GR, can’t we? Do we agree that if anti hydrogen atoms are observed to fall up with -g acceleration at CERN it would ontologically falsifies GR by falsifying weak and Einstein equivalence...

The wiki article section in the strong equivalence principle is pretty good. You can have a look. That is what scientists have been doing. GR field equations works very well in some circumstances and not so well in others. There are 3 Einstein field predictions that didn’t pass the test...

To pursue on the topic of GR falsifiability, I have already emphasized the prime importance of the experimental validity of the 3 equivalence principle which serve as the foundational pillars of General Relativity: any breach, rupture or proper collapse of these principles would effectively...

SEP tests can falsify GR. We have a new and novel kind of SEP test that if confirmed might end up falsifying GR, even if we could consider that in the absence of a proper rebuttal and discussion about what we should make out of the outcome of the test it is preferable to be cautious and not say...

Your arguments are defy not valid. As long as the 5 sigma confidence observational correlations between galaxy dynamics and neighboring objects properties remains valid there is a SEP violation. There are not a lots of ways out here: - The data is wrong ( experimental errors) - The analysis is...

Let’s agree to disagree on this one then... Let’s forget about Kroupa’s blog then, the only piece of argument that concerns this topic is the one that implies observational SEP violations and the peer reviewed article link was already posted somewhere here. Since the SEP violations claim...

That’s the exact definition of «falsification» you can find in Popper’s books and whom coined the very term we are discussing here. Science is not only about making predictions and being usable, it is all about finding and understanding the inner workings of nature and of the physical...

Well that’s exactly what has been done in the SEP test studies I quoted but using the prediction of the MOND conjecture and in this case it has shown correlations between the dynamics of studied galaxies and neighboring objects just as predicted by the conjecture and excluded by GR. It is a...