by
Stephen J. Crothers
~ Something about Sky & Telescope ~
Astronomers admit: No Black Holes Found ~
American Mathematical Society Suppresses Science ~
W. T. "Tom" Bridgman claims to be an astronomer, who owns and maintains a website where he, as a Defender of the Realm, with its black holes, big bangs, and dark forces, disparages and ridicules people he sees as enemies of proponents of the current dogmas in astronomy and astrophysics.
Here is Bridgman's brief description of himself:
W.T."Tom" Bridgman
Maryland, United States
I obtained my doctorate in physics and astronomy in 1994. I currently work in scientific data visualization for the media and public outreach.
Now Bridgman has demonstrated a proclivity to censor from his webpages arguments and comments which he does not like. Even though he owns and maintains the said website, he invites scientific discussion, and so gives all and sundry the real expectation that scientific arguments will not be suppressed in any way by him. But it seems he frequently withholds that which he finds embarassing for himself and the Standard Modellers.
Bridgman has taken it upon himself to attack me and my work, and with that aim he has posted to his website a rather pathetic set of comments, which can be found here:
I prepared a reply to Bridgman and posted a link to it on his webpage. Here is my response to Bridgman:
Bridgman subsequently decided to open a blog dedicated solely to vilification of me and my work. He then posted a number of my replies, the contents of which he and one J. Sharples ignored. Bridgman did not like what I had to say and soon stated that he would not post anything further from me unless it complied with his restrictive dictatorial terms. I quote him: "Since this is my blog and not your forum, your next comment here better include a demonstration (preferably a link) of the experimental implications of your claims, including why it works so well in precision timing applications, or I will reject it.". He did not however impose any restrictions upon the posts by Sharples. Before receiving his ignoble censorial note I had prepared this reply to Sharples and Bridgman, a reply that would be withheld, by Bridgman's own admission. In it I provided Bridgman and Sharples with a simple recipe to prove me a mug and themselves smarter than the average bear. Not surprisingly the reponse has been silence. Here is the simple recipe:
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1) Provide a proof that Einstein's 'Principle of Equivalence' and his 'laws' of Special Relativity can manifest in a spacetime that by
construction contains no matter; namely, the empty spacetime described by Rμν = 0. 2) Provide a proof that Einstein's pseudo-tensor is NOT a meaningless concoction of mathematical symbols. |
Bridgman, who claims a PhD in physics and astronomy, has admitted that until he read my papers he was entirely ignorant of the fact that the so-called 'Schwarzschild solution' is not even Schwarzschild's solution. I remark that Schwarzschild's actual solution forbids black holes!
It is also clear from Bridgman's comments that he is entirely ignorant of what r in the so-called 'Schwarzschild solution' actually denotes: but this he has in common with all black holers and big bangers. The irrefutable geometric fact that the said r is not even a distance, let alone a radial one, in the so-called 'Schwarzschild solution', completely invalidates all claims that General Relativity 'predicts' black holes.
Stephen J. Crothers
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