1139 A Guide tells us how Einstein agrees he was wrong.

1139 A Guide tells us how Einstein agrees he was wrong.

 (Geoff starts and a Guide takes over almost right away)

Geoff/Guide
Now, see I know some of this already. His theory of relativity is going to be challenged. And the reason for that is, he had the most brilliant mathematical brain and he guessed everything right, but he didn’t get all the information that he needed. So, when I look at the stars, for example, you look at a star which is 10,000 light years away, how do you calculate the speed of that star, where it goes to, what temperature it’s at and so on? It’s all based on information that’s been gathered over the years, and passed down from one generation to the next. And these brilliant minds going right back to Galileo for example have looked at it and said well we’ve worked out this and this and it gets improved all the time. And now that you’ve got the ability to see far deeper into space they’re starting to understand that it wasn’t quite what they thought it was and this all boils down to Einstein’s basic theory of relativity. It’s slightly flawed but not much. It’s simply because he didn’t see the last little bit of the puzzle which you’ve only been able to see now because you’ve got this new telescope which is up there able to see an awful lot more. But that also happened at the right time to change. People could accept it a little bit more and a little bit easier.

You’re talking about going back two or three thousand years, they were calculating the speed of the sun around the earth or vice versa. And where the stars moved to and all sorts. So now with modern technology, of course, they’re simply finding out more and more and more. Yeah. But again, it’s the same thing with science. They don’t look at energy.

Geoff
They don’t look at colours. They don’t look at… They look at things which they can’t figure out how it works. I’m honestly getting Einstein here with a pipe. And he just takes it out of his mouth, he does, he says, yep, that’s it. I don’t know if it’s Einstein or just a short memory.

Anyway, that will do for this evening.