Re: ABSOLUTE TRUTH ABOUT ABSOLUTE SPACETIME

From: Perfectly Innocent (perfectlyInnocent_at_as-if.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: 20 Jun 2004 18:19:19 -0700

funk420@yahoo.com (luke) wrote in message news:<e1b04639.0406190402.3ae8a38e@posting.google.com>...
> Perfectly Innocent wrote in message news:<c45b45b3.0406181454.60560d19@posting.google.com>...
> >
> > http://www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?p=1948#1948
> > http://cornell.mirror.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v8/i6/p1662_1
> > http://www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?t=79
> > http://www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?t=605
> > http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/simultaneity.htm
>
> Thanks for the info. I guess my problem is that I still see no real
> definition for "absolute" in this context.

That's why it's important for relativists to consider teaching SR in
the most intuitive manner possible. They're opposed to that, I'm sure,
but how can there be any harm in emphasizing all the fundamental
concepts of relativity in the simplest domain of applicability? SxR
(special relativity in a circle universe) is easier to understand than
SR because you start with a frame of reference that has properties
that differ from all other frames on a circle. The absolute frame of
reference is the frame where an instantaneous light pulse emitted left
and right from one point will return to the same point simultaneously
after circumnavigating the universe. That's not the result you get
when this experiment is performed in other frames of reference.

It's easy to see why my preferred frame should be called absolute.
It's a frame to which all other frames must refer to, bowing in
deference to its preeminence, importance and centrality.

Eugene Shubert
http://www.everythingimportant.org

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