Re: New challenge to Einstein from experiment?

From: Androcles (dummy_at_dummy.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:14:16 GMT

"Creighton Hogg" <wchogg@hep.wisc.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0502010830100.27203-100000@erodium.hep.wisc.edu...

> 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.

Hmm.... in 1920, it sure worried Einstein.
http://www.bartleby.com/173/7.html

That was 15 years AFTER he said
....."Principle of Relativity'') to the status of a postulate, and also
introduce another postulate, which is only apparently irreconcilable ...

Apparently a lot of people thought it really was irreconcilable. Some of
us still do.
Some of us even know it is.

V = (u + v) / ( 1 + uv/c^2)

so (2+2) / ( 1 + 2*2/ 1^2) = 0.8
That doesn't seem to hold much water.
Some of us even think 2+2 = 4, but we are weird.

But then, if "the velocity of light in our theory plays the part,
physically, of an infinitely great velocity."

V = (2+2) / ( 1 + 2*2/ oo ^2 ) = 4

That doesn't hold much water either, since almost everyone beleives
 c = 299,792,458 metres per second.

So where is all the water leaking from?

Androcles.

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