Re: change +c to -c and the Lorentz equations still work

From: Androcles (androc1es_at_nospamblueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:47:04 GMT

"Robert B. Winn" <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote in message
news:a17e5e0e.0409080630.68924569@posting.google.com...
| Machine,
| There is a reason why they still work. It has to do with the
| term
| (t-vx/c^2) in the equation for t'. You need to decide if x is going
| to be ct or -ct. All you have here is a shortcut. If x is -ct, then
| your equation says
| (t-v(-ct)/c^2), which is t+vct/c^2. This is a different process than
| the one you are using for a photon going in the +x direction where
| x=ct, and ,as you might notice, a longer time.
| The original expression is (t-vt/c) in which c is the velocity
| of light, not the speed. Scientists changed it to (t-vx/c^2) so that
| they did not have to think about it, and they could just say c=speed
| of light.

Not so. It was set up by Einstein when he said:
"IF (note the 'if') we place x' = x-vt...." and the minus sign has been
there ever since.
No scientists were involved, relativity is not science, it is religion.
No relativist is a scientist, no matter what title he claims for himself.
Androcles

| Robert b. Winn

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