Trolling could be persistent harassment,
True, but that's not what I'm doing, so I don't know what you're talking about?
your argument is nothing more than these two points.
Perhaps, if heyuhua addressed those two points, we would be able to move onto other things. But alas, heyuhua has been unable to do that so far, so we're stuck at that point for now.
Your every second post is pricking him with these two points, you have realised that he is not equipped to suitably answer this still you are raising this stuff again and again, this is nothing but persistent harassment aka trolling.
So, how is that different from heyuhua constantly bringing up these two points himself? You do know this is a discussion forum, right? If somebody brings up something like that, they want it discussed. Why else post it?
And if you consider my behavior to be harassment, I invite you to contact the moderation staff.
You started off with a very poor understanding of the sign stuff
Something that was not explained by Yang or heyuhua. Something that heyuhua also had no understanding of. Something that, as I found out the truth, I immediately acknowledged. Not only was I the one in this thread figuring that out, I was the one bringing up sign conventions in the first place. Neither Yang nor heyuhua mentioned anything about it before I did (and I believe I had to explain it to him), thus demonstrating that my "very poor understanding" was still superior to heyuhua's.
Why are you complaining about my behavior on this, when obviously heyuhua is just as guilty, if not more so, because he claims to have direct access to an expert, and thus could have resolved this immediately?
by claiming that it will give negative gravity.
Well, the minus-sign difference can be absorbed into the stress-energy tensor, basically flipping the sign of mass (for stationary objects). What happens when you do that in Newtonian gravity?
I have already admitted this is a very hand-wavy thing, and that's why I haven't pressed the point, but you tell me what happens when you throw a minus-sign into the EFE then.
Even more interesting is that heyuhua actually says this himself too: that's why in Yang's model, matter has the same effect as dark energy (accelerating the universal expansion). So, my claim is actually confirmed by heyuhua... Have you even understood this thread?
The point is neither you nor Heyuhua (and nor me too) understand the actual derivation of how the Einstein Coefficient is achieved,
You are in no position to make that claim about me. You don't know me. How do you know I don't have a Master's in Astrophysics?
so you can't blame him for not able to clarify this point.
Actually, I can. Let's say you study a textbook. Show me examples of textbooks (we've already got a great collection gathered in this thread) where the sign convention of the Ricci tensor is more than just a single line of text.
Not so easy, is it? That's quite typical in physics and mathematics: authors pick one convention, and stick with it. It's only discussed once (if at all), often in just a single line. It's easy to miss, it's easy to forget.
I never claimed to be an expert, but heyuhua claims he has direct access to one on a regular basis. So why wasn't he able to figure it out? Surely he was in a much better position than I am! So that complaint from you about me go doubly for heyuhua.
Both of you are in same boat, he is a votary of Yang without understanding the maths involved in toto and you are a votary of mainstream without understanding that in toto.
Again, you don't know me. But I've at least demonstrated a much better knowledge of GR and cosmology than heyuhua in this thread. Certainly enough to point out severe issues with Yang's work.
Yes of course you have edge due to mainstream.
No, agreeing with the mainstream doesn't give one any edge. I have the edge of tens of thousands of people having done the calculations, reaching the -8 answer. People including Einstein, Adler, Mesner, Weinberg, Carroll, and heyuhua's own Chinese author. It's not me that's disagreeing with Yang; it's those tens of thousands of people.
James R has a job to do, he has to appear as maintaining mainstream content in science section,
Are you claiming James R is (unwillingly?) part of the conspiracy heyuhua has been referring to? Are you saying he is intimidated by someone or something? Well, I guess you should probably bring that to this site's owner's attention then!
and he appears to have acted as per that by shifting this thread to fringe.
Have you considered that, perhaps, Yang's work is fringe, and thus belongs in that subsection?
Who doesn't?
then please accept the criticism too with grace.
I want to, but I find it difficult seeing that you are extremely hypocritical in that you level that criticism only at me, when it applies even stronger to heyuhua.
But let's investigate this then. What would you have me do instead? How would you want me to handle heyuhua?
