Re: Is special relativity falsifiable?

From: N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) (net_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:18:15 -0700

Dear Marcel Luttgens:

"Marcel Luttgens" <mluttgens@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:86996cba.0407270441.1cddd0e0@posting.google.com...
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> Let's now forget the object P and its clock, and consider only
> two objects A and B leaving each other in opposite directions,
> at the same velocity v, after having sychronized their clocks to 0.
> According to SR, observer A arrived at a distance d from B
> will claim that tB = tA * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), but, in his frame of
> reference, observer B is perfectly right (sic) to claim that
> tB = tA * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)!
> This can rightly be called a hoax, because both clocks keep ticking
> at the same rate, meaning that neither A nor B can observe a
> time "dilation" on the other's clock.

Incorrect. During the trip, A and B see each other's clocks go slower
"away", same rate while parallel, and faster "towards". You are making
assumptions about instantaneous communications between frames A and B.

> Conclusively, this "aircrafts thought experiment" falsifies SR.

It shows only that your understanding is flawed.

It is considered to be impolite to top post, as you have done to Mr.
Roberts. Since you did not even respond to him, though perhaps you only
left his previous response in to catch his attention.

David A. Smith

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