Re: Avoiding Tripping Points in Special Relativity (was Basics series proposed)

From: Eugene Shubert (GalileoProject002_at_everythingimportant.org)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: 15 Oct 2004 07:57:07 -0700

"Bilge" <dubious@radioactivex.lebesque-al.net> wrote in message news:slrncmulq6.4o7.dubious@radioactivex.lebesque-al.net...> Eugene Shubert:
> ><puppet_sock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:c7976c46.0410141155.5d0c8f27@posting.google.com...
> >> "Eugene Shubert" <http://www.everythingimportant.org> wrote
> >> http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf
> >>
> >> During my undergrad years, I took at least three different courses
> >> on relativity. Two in the physics dept, and one at the applied math
> >> dept. The applied math one was the most useful because it started
> >> with the actual axioms of Einstein's theory, and derived the results
> >> without any extra assumptions. Your paper would actually be doing
> >> this, in much the way my fave course did, if you would simply drop
> >> all the worry about who's-on-first-with-the-transforms. My prof in
> >> applied math called this derivation "alpha calculus" and you have
> >> basically got the skeleton of it in your paper. Though there are
> >> (in my opinion) simpler and more illuminating ways of presenting it.
> >> Socks
> >
>> Thanks Socks for mentioning that you were an advanced undergraduate
>> student of physics and math and that you think my paper represents
>> a mathematician's approach to relativity.
>
> I see you've ``volunteered'' another person to become a supporter
> by selectively misconstruing their comments.

I think it's reasonable to call a prof in applied math a mathematician
and that the paragraph that Socks complained about can be ignored
without causing trouble to the ensuing derivation.

Cheers,

Eugene Shubert
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf

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