Re: Einstein's Relativity and Everyday Life

"Mike Coon" <mjcoon@@connectfee.co.uk> wrote:

J. J. Lodder wrote:
Lacking relativity it would have been necessary
to work out the phenomenological corrections
to be applied GPS clocks to get the timing right.

There can be little doubt that this could
(and would) have been worked out.
Explaining it all would pose a nice puzzle
for the theoreticians to solve.

In a similar way to the wireless industry having coherers and cat's whisker
diode detectors before much was understood about the physics. I believe
there is still a problem with explaining high-temperature superconductivity
at a basic level.

IIRC the whole nuclear industry, civilian and military, grew out of a basic
understanding of nuclear processes. Though of course that understanding may
have been kick-started by chance observations of fogged photographic film...

Which would have been very hard to explain
without a certain A. Einstein inventing relativity...

The problem of course is not with physics,
it is a problem of the American mentality,
with it's traditional emphasis on naive empiricism
and its distrust of 'book learning'.

In other parts of the world theoretical physisists
feel less need to invent silly 'justifications'
for what they do.

Jan
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