Recent content by SJGooch

I have looked through the on-line documentation of the Pioneer Anomaly, and have a simple question: Could the apparent additional acceleration toward the Sun be due to an additional mass of dust which adhered to the spacecraft ? I notice that the authors of the main papers (...

"...something...has mass A. The rest of the universe has mass B..." is said to lead to a violation of conservation of mass-energy. Under cosmic inflation, mass-energy is NOT conserved by the universe as a whole. Mass-energy is not even conserved under transformations of inertial...

Jarle, you say, "...it violates our intuition of past, present and future..." Exactly! I propose that that is all it does.

Why is the "Grandfather Paradox" considered a paradox? Feedback exists in other disciplines, so why not in physics? Isn't disallowing feedback in time akin to stating that a negative feedback system can never exist in nature? (And, yet, they obviously do!) Why not assume that, as in other...

I believe the original responder has altogether misinterpreted the original questioner's question. Please allow me to restate the original question more succinctly: If the predictions of special relativity are compared to those of a simple flat nonrelativistic light medium that is...