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Jimmy87
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Hi pf,
When I was taught about SR, I was told it was one of the most successful theories in science and has been verified over and over again. However, I have been watching some videos online and wanted some guidance. I initially came across this:
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This guy claims to have a PhD in physics but seems to talk complete nonsense in my opinion. He claims Einstein said that mass increases as your velocity increases near the speed of light. He then says the proof of Einstein being wrong is that all particle accelerators observe no mass increase. My understanding is that relativistic mass increases but this is not your true mass anyway so surely you should not observe any mass increase should you? What did Einstein actually say about mass and approaching light speed?
After reading through some of this guys threads, some people said that SR has been proved through muon decay, which I have studied a bit. His response to these comments is that this is not universally accepted and gave links to some other theory that can explain it (<link deleted>) and a video by a physics researcher that claims that time is invariant (unless you are accelerating):
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I just wanted to know if any current researching physicists debate whether or not SR is a complete theory? It frustrates me that if I came across people like this I wouldn't know what to say in response because we are never taught the extent to which these theories are tested and if there are any anomalies at all.
Thanks for any information given.
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When I was taught about SR, I was told it was one of the most successful theories in science and has been verified over and over again. However, I have been watching some videos online and wanted some guidance. I initially came across this:
<link deleted>
This guy claims to have a PhD in physics but seems to talk complete nonsense in my opinion. He claims Einstein said that mass increases as your velocity increases near the speed of light. He then says the proof of Einstein being wrong is that all particle accelerators observe no mass increase. My understanding is that relativistic mass increases but this is not your true mass anyway so surely you should not observe any mass increase should you? What did Einstein actually say about mass and approaching light speed?
After reading through some of this guys threads, some people said that SR has been proved through muon decay, which I have studied a bit. His response to these comments is that this is not universally accepted and gave links to some other theory that can explain it (<link deleted>) and a video by a physics researcher that claims that time is invariant (unless you are accelerating):
<link deleted>
I just wanted to know if any current researching physicists debate whether or not SR is a complete theory? It frustrates me that if I came across people like this I wouldn't know what to say in response because we are never taught the extent to which these theories are tested and if there are any anomalies at all.
Thanks for any information given.
[Moderator's note: links to sites that are not acceptable sources per the PF rules have been deleted.]