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Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 08 2019, @11:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the einstein-dismisses-india-scientists dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress dismissed the findings of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

Hindu mythology and religion-based theories have increasingly become part of the Indian Science Congress agenda.

But experts said remarks at this year's summit were especially ludicrous.

[...] The head of a southern Indian university cited an old Hindu text as proof that stem cell research was discovered in India thousands of years ago.

G Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of Andhra University, also said a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka.

Another scientist from a university in the southern state of Tamil Nadu told conference attendees that Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were both wrong and that gravitational waves should be renamed "Narendra Modi Waves" [Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @12:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @12:30AM (#783913)

    ‘dark matter’ - which probably does not exist.

    Probably isn't sensitive to heat [earthsky.org] either.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @12:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @12:53AM (#783926)

    A key prediction of such models is that, at a fixed dark matter halo mass, dwarfs with a higher stellar mass will have a lower central dark matter density.

    https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3404/5265085 [oup.com]

    Already predicted by MOND decades ago (at least qualitatively):

    The further out [=smaller acceleration] one looks, the larger the apparent requirement for dark matter.

    https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/373555/mass-discrepancy-acceleration-relation-in-%CE%9Bcdm-paradigm [stackexchange.com]

    The rule is: More Mass -> Higher Acceleration -> Less "Dark Matter"

    Whether it works out quantitatively is up to the MOND people to figure out, there is very little freedom for MOND so it pretty much either works, or it doesn't (or there is some error in estimating the distance to the galaxies, etc). Perhaps ask Tracy McGaugh to take a look: https://tritonstation.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com]