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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: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday January 09 2019, @11:19AM (3 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @11:19AM (#784060) Journal

    "The end result is that photons are very dark relative to baryonic matter."

    Doesn't make them 'dark matter'.

    "The end result is black people are very dark compared to white people."
    Doesn't make them hockey pucks.

    Citation still needed.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:12PM (#784128) Journal

    Doesn't make them 'dark matter'.

    Actually it does. Dark matter is a label for an effect. Things like those photons contribute to the effect.

    Citation still needed.

    For what?

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:07PM (1 child)

      by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:07PM (#784179) Journal

      Dark matter has NOT been found: dark matter is a kludge 'discovered' JUST JUST JUST to make GR still work.

      Some matter has been found. Is it 'dark matter'? No. Dark matter is a magic kludge. GR does not work without it and we can't allow that so we wave our hands and we come up with 'dark matter'.

      There is no dark matter. The scientific method has pushed it aside. Dark matter is not real.

      *Citation is STILL needed for
      "Actually, dark matter has been found"
      because no where can i find that it has.

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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday January 10 2019, @12:51AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 10 2019, @12:51AM (#784373) Journal

        Some matter has been found. Is it 'dark matter'?

        I already gave three examples to the contrary. It is "dark matter", but it's not enough dark matter.