Re: Failure of SR (and GR)?

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 06/07/04


Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:01:06 +0000 (UTC)

In article <GeidnSQqZuqeBlndRVn-hg@softcom.net>,
David Rutherford <drutherford@softcom.net> wrote:
>
>
>Bilge wrote:
>> David Rutherford:
>> >
>> >
>> >Bilge wrote:
>> >> David Rutherford:
>> >> >Bilge wrote:
>> >> >> You just wrote a paragraph that means nothing.
>> >> >
>> >> >What I wrote is a simple _fact_ that applies to any metric and its
>> >>
>> >> Suit yourself. I'm not going to follow a maze of twisty little passages,
>> >> all alike.
>> >
>> >You seem to have a lack of knowledge of basic relativistic physics.
>> >Don't blame that on me. Pick up a book.
>>
>> You asked me to give you an example of what what wrong with your
>> so-called theory. I did.
>
>No, you gave me a so-called example, which I showed was flawed.
>
>> You think a metric with a signature of
>> (++++) describes this universe.
>
>You still haven't given me valid empirical evidence that it doesn't.

A necessary consequence would be time contraction, t = t0/sqrt(1+v^2/c^2).
E.g. muons decay faster when they move faster. This is observed not to
happen.

-- 
"Very well, he replied, I allow you cow's dung in place of human 
excrement; bake your bread on that." -- Ezekiel 4:15


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