Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction

Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by empath-nirvana on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:47AM (#39381584)

Again, he didn't _discover_ it. He just _assumed it_ and worked out the consequences if it were true, which turned out to be _very weird_. Then it was confirmed through experiment that he accurately predicted the consequences of it.

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by Retric on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:53AM (#39381618)

No, experiments showing a fixed speed of light came first. Ex: 1887 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment It’s a critical point people miss. Rather than come up with his ideas in a vacuum Albert Einstein instead was trying to explain some results which seemed really counterintuitive.

He made many other predictions which where tested afterwards. People also repeated the speed of lights tests in new ways, but the light experiments where consistent with earlier results.

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by empath-nirvana on Thursday February 15, 2024 @12:34PM (#39385555)

Yes, I know that. What was proved by experiment later was the _consequences_ of a fixed speed of light that he worked out. (ie: time dilation, etc)

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by Retric on Friday February 16, 2024 @11:01AM (#39398753)

Did you heavily edit your comment?

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