An immortal fumble by David Strich (aka iqgoogol@gmail.com aka ...) (2-Aug-2008)
Eat more bananas
>> Hogwash, the monkeys would cheer. >> >> And I'll let them cheer, except for a little known fact. GR does >> seem >> to predict with great accuracy the precession of the planet Mercury. >> *-BUT, GR incorrectly predicts the precession of the planet Earth.-*- > > Situation in 1924: > Mercury - Theoretical: 43.03, Observed: 43.11 +/- 0.45 > Venus - Theoretical: 8.63, Observed: 8.4 +/- 4.8 > Earth - Theoretical: 3.8, Observed: 5.0 +/- 1.2 > - >> Now, a reasonable scientist would conclude that GR must be an erroneous >> theory. But, of course, a monkey scientist would simply ignore this >> fact and restate, without further ado, that GR is a solid theory.- > Now, a reasonable imbecile would run away when he gets > hit in the face. But of course, autistic imbeciles simply have > no sense of self preservation. > > Dirk Vdm Eat more bananas, Dick van Moron. Your data is a quarter of a century old. Try to improve those margins of error. |
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