Re: New challenge to Einstein from experiment?

From: Mike (eleatis_at_yahoo.gr)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: 1 Feb 2005 07:06:19 -0800

Creighton Hogg wrote:

[snip]
>
> That doesn't seem to hold much water. The relative kinetic energy of
the
> two bodies, the projectile and the wall, is the same in all reference

> frames. It's the kinetic energy with respect to *you* that varies
> according to your reference frame. I don't see how that invalidates
> anything related to relativity.
>
Are we talking hydraulics here?:)

It does invalidate everything and in the simplest way possible. It
simply says that all phenomena do not have the same interpretation in
all moving reference frames but in all reference frames when considered
as a relative phenomenon. There is where the problem lies.

How would you know which relative kinetic energy to use in general? In
my example in was easy because you know the effect. In general
situations that entails reference to some absolute space, in the bast
case scenario, if the end effect is not know but it is the object of
prediction.

Mike