Wednesday, April 22, 2009

8 - Prime Violation #2

Dr. Einstein saw that Small Science proponents were not phased by the fact that their Universe was so unpredictable. His only recourse was to toss a scientific grenade that would surely wake them up. In his most elegant thought experiment of all he described two electrons traveling though space that collide but continue on modified courses that carry them toward opposite reaches of the Universe. Billions of years later one of the electrons passes through a physics laboratory somewhere in the high desert of New Mexico where an instrument measures its speed. Instantaneously, in a galaxy far far away, the other electron changes direction in compliance with Small Science.