Re: Experiment to Test Mutual Time Dilation

From: Titan Point (titanpoint_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: 13 Oct 2004 03:40:20 -0700

kenseto@erinet.com (Ken Seto) wrote in message news:<75dd81d3.0409201152.6b6446d9@posting.google.com>...
> Tom Roberts <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote in message news:<414CBD7B.9090102@lucent.com>...
> > Ken Seto wrote:
> > > [...] According to Tom Roberts, [...]
> > > Not according to Tom Roberts....
> >
> > You are utterly incompetent to determine what is or is not "according to
> > Tom Roberts". Please stop attempting to do so.
>
> So you didn't say that?
> Tom Roberts:
> "Similarly, in SR a moving clock LOOKS like it ticks slower, but the
> clock itself did not slow down; in SR a moving ruler LOOKS like it is
> shorter, but the ruler itself did not shrink. All these are examples
> of
> changes in perspective, not changes in the underlying object being
> observed. Nothing mysterious here, just geometry."
>
> BTW, what you said above is nonsense.

Nope its perfectly obvious what Tom Roberts was talking about. The
proper time of a moving clock does not slow down, the proper length of
a ruler does not change when it is moving. What is measured by others
about that clock and that ruler depends upon the relative motion with
the observer.

Simple.

> Perspective does not accumulate
> whereas clocks at different frame will accumulate proper time at a
> different rate.

Bull***. You've failed the class. Proper time and proper length are
invariant in SR.

Tom Roberts did not write that "perpective accumulates", Keto Seto did
because Ken Seto doesn't have a clue.

> So how do you explain that?
>
You're a moron. It's as simple as that.
> >
> > In both cases where you attempted this you got it completely wrong.
> > There are subtleties here you to which you are deaf and blind.
> >
> > Cease and desist attempting to use my name in any way.
>
> I am entitled to use what you posted. If you don't like it tough.
>
> Ken Seto

And I am entitled to call Ken Seto a moron. Based on his posts that
cannot be any more than a fair assessment.

I used to think Ken Seto wilfully misconstrued what others, including
Tom Roberts, said, but now I realise that Seto simply doesn't have a
clue.

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