Re: A challenge to non-SRians

From: Bilge (dubious_at_radioactivex.lebesque-al.net)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:04:59 -0000

 luke:
>aksuited@yahoo.com (Paul Miller) wrote:
>> > Easy. Drop a ball. Ball is accelerated to floor.
>> > SR does not predict this acceleration.
>> >
>> > Give the money to a good charity for me - luke
>>
>> Hi Luke,
>>
>> I answered this point in another thread. SR, like every theory, has a
>> certain domain of applicability, a range of phenomena which it claims
>> to explain. It's not designed to account for phenomena outside of that
>> range - including, for example, effects of gravity. So the bet is
>> about the validity within its claimed domain of applicability.
>>
>> Paul
>
>Are you saying that any result in contradiction to SR is not permitted
>in the contest of trying to find a result in contradiction to SR?
>Isn't any result in contradiction to SR outside its domain of
>applicability?
 
  Maybe for you he'd be willing to let you design an expriment to
test general relativity.

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