Rich Webb wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:13:53 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
<dirk.bruere@gmail.com> wrote:

john wrote:

I know, and all that crap about
Cosmic consciousness and
love and such.
And the way they don't make sounds!!
They use telepathy. Retarded!!

And let's not forget the anal probes and forced breeding programs.

Why, then, everyone would know the truth!
How stupid is that!

The truth being that they have more in common with poltergeists than
"aliens". And that they adapt to our (or Billybob's) expectations.

And the idea of using gravity screening to fall from one
place to another! Just dumb!

Yes, it is.
For reasons you would not understand.

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But you do understand gravity??
Wonderful.
Please explain it to us, Dirk.

Not problem.
Here's GR, which currently explains every observation of gravitational phenomena from time dilation in GPS satellites to energy loss in binary neutron star systems. Not a single observation has falsified it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

Well, there's this recent one. http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3853

Granted, the cautious bet would be a systemic error. It's a good paper,
insofar as I'm qualified to judge (er, not very far, actually) but their
results are a 98% confidence level. Mythical-supernatural-entity-bless
experimentalists. Be interesting to see if independent observations find
anything.

Well, there are a few possible contradictions including different speeds for very high energy gamma rays. However, there is not enough data collected to be definitive and when GR has been in this situation before it has always been vindicated. Wait and see.