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Dialect is the popular YouTube science channel on a mission to prove the existence of the Aether and to rewrite Einstein’s contribution to the understanding of SpaceTime.
I don’t like it.
If you knew my thoughts on Aether you would think that I would be overjoyed and excited about Dialect’s project but as a starting point I would say that “Science” trumps all personal preferences.
I am interested in Science for what those involved in it can find out particularly after spending huge amounts of time developing skills and often having to wait years for empirical research to spout out reams (terabytes?) of data that they then have to sort through in order to reveal if there even is some sort of indicative signal in there somewhere.
So, I have my own opinions and some things which I consider to be logical beliefs (“hunches”) but they are secondary (so very very way way way WAY behind secondary!) compared to what the labrats get upto.
Dialect presents their efforts as totally subverting Science and everyone else is an idiot for “believing” that they thought that they know anything.
Except, I know a lot of the territory that Dialect is cultivating and none of it points to where Dialect thinks it is going. Or, would like it to go.
Examples from Dialect’s channel:-
Upwards Force equivalent of Rocket Acceleration
Time as a product of Gravity
Gravity as a product of Time
Time Dilation isn’t Time Dilation only it is Time Dilation
((these are not Dialect’s titles but my short explanations of Dialect’s contents))
For years, I have spent time coming-up with my own versions of key concepts in Physics for my own writing projects which require for there to be divergent but equivalent ideas in the story settings especially if there is an alien civilization; I call the ideas “the Particular Theory”.
The point of my alternate explanations is that they must accord with current Science except if they represent an earlier stage in a scientific discipline. Any future tech idea is also so limited; it is like how in Sci-Fi BlackHoles were once thought to be the entry points of hyperspace tunnels with attendant WhiteHole exits somewhere else far far away. (I never liked that idea.)
Dialect chooses topics that are truly incredibly hard to understand and then produces a video entitled “You still don’t understand this sort of thing” or “Scientists don’t understand that type of thing” with some impressive animations.
Other SciTube content creators (the real ones, not the artificial-content content-factories or the content-theft content-factories) have tried to explain those difficult topics often quite successfully.
(There is ONE particular concept that *I* can only apologise for as I don’t think that anyone was saying it before some ((shall we say fuck-knuckle)) spy-organisation released it into the wild.)
Dialect definitely gets things wrong.
In the UK media, there was a fad for saying “Nothing is Moving” in relation to how Gravity works in the early-to-mid 2010’s. That came from trigonometric attempts to understand SpaceTime which overplayed how there is a sum-over-histories aspect to the interaction of bodies and their gravitational fields.
The latest version of this was the “The Earth moves up to Hit the Apple” notion that has been everywhere.
Alas, the Earth’s gravitational field is definitely dominant.
The trigonometric approach does provide good information; it is just that some whacko slapped some pseudo-intellectual wassa-wassa all over it in order to make themselves seem really clever.
I advise you to ignore them.
I was patient with Dialect but then their last video started going-on about “The Matrix has you” … while talking about … Time Dilation and Rockets travelling at percentages of the speed of light.
The Matrix style glyph rain was almost laughable. What did that have to do with anything in the topic?
It also presented downright misinformation about observers affecting light. The standard explanation is that observers observe Relative phenomenon “passively”. Dialect forces the “Schroedinger”-like Thought Experiment perspective of the observer having to observe something in order to collapse a wave function of a quantum event. In the “traditional” Relativity examples, the observer’s mind isn’t essential to the physics. And yet, Dialect repeats several times about you, the audience, agreeing with their theory which will allow you to become free of the Matrix which has a grip of your mind.
It’s nonsense.
Anyway, spies suck ass and they should stay off the internet.
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