An immortal fumble by Jan Verheul (Jaco Verheij) (21-Nov-2006)
My Religion says that Special Relativity must be wrong
> > One of the foundations of my conviction about absolute time is my > > belief as a christian in a ubiquitous creator God. The omnipresence of > > an intelligent being implies the conceptual possibility of > > communication faster than light. Communication faster than light > > immediately invalidates SR. I believe therefore that SR is the wrong > > explanation of the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. Other > > solutions are possible, which are not in conflict with the conceptual > > possibility of infinitely fast information transfer. > In the Bible, God never expressed an opinion about relativity. Better > to leave God out of it. God has knowable properties of Himself revealed in the Bible that are in conflict with aspects of Relativity. [ Continued on 29-Nov-2006 ]
My religious beliefs come into play at another point in the reasoning.
If there is no intelligent creator, the momentum of the matter in the
universe must somehow emanate from the laws of the universe, implying
that there is no Relativity. The only way to escape this conclusion is
to assume an intelligent creator that has created both the laws of the
universe and the initial momentum of the universe without any relation
between the two. If we take a look at the two big monotheistic
religions on this matter, there can be no Relativity because it is not
reconcilable with properties of God/Allah, who is supposed to be
omnipresent as well as omnipotent as well as "one". Assuming God/Allah
is bound by the speed of light, a law that he himself created, is
nonsense.
So the assumption that there is no intelligent creator leads to the
conclusion that there is no Relativity, and the assumption that there
is indeed an intelligent creator leads to the conclusion that there is
no Relativity. There is no Relativity, no matter what your religious
beliefs are.
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