Gravity Driven Universe - New Edition

As with the book "Finding God in Physics", white trash egomaniac Roy Masters engages in shameless throwing around of technical terminology to create the puerile illusion that he's onto something. It's actually tantamount to the comedic performances of Prof. Irwin Corey, The World's Foremost Authority, minus the comedy value. He presents the idea of gravity as a push force, which is pretty much an exact copy of Le Sage's theory of gravity going back in various forms to 1690. Other commentary on radiation or the Casimir effect, where correctly stated, isn't put forward to make any sort of relevant points. This latest printing is 2011. He certainly hasn't learned rudimentary physics since his earlier ventures into physics. For clarification it needs to be stated: 1. A rotating space station does not create gravity. 2. Gravity does not produce work unless it causes displacement of an object. 3. Photons do not slow down passing through a transparent medium. The expression, "The speed of light is slower" in, say, glass refers solely to the fact that the photons are repeatedly interrupted in their motion as they try to make their way through a transparent solid. They are repeatedly absorbed and re-emitted by the electronic bonds in their path, so their net speed is slower. 4. A moving magnet does not create electrons but only pushes the ones already in a metal coil around. 5. Particles do not gain mass near the speed of light because they are pressing against anything. They gain relative mass because they are being forced to disintegrate in a manner they cannot efficiently transition through. The corresponding resistance appears as relative inertia. 6. Geckos do not cling to surfaces because of the Casimir effect. They cling because of the van der Waals bonding of the tiny hair-like structures on their feet. Rubbing these structures against a contact surface can help instigate inductive charge coupling. 7. A gyroscope only resists tilting if one end of its rotational axes is pinned. 8. The "Big Bang" is not a complicated base idea. 9. There is plenty of surface tension in space. Surface tension is caused by chemical bonding within the liquid and electron repulsion at a liquid drop's surface. 10. Roy Masters is not amenable to being confronted with the errors in his reasoning, regardless of his insistence that he's a bastion of integrity.

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