Re: Confusion about time.
From: Paul B. Andersen (paul.b.andersen_at_deletethis.hia.no)
Date: 11/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:02:01 +0100
Henri Wilson skrev:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:37:34 +0100, "Paul B. Andersen"
> <paul.b.andersen@deletethis.hia.no> wrote:
>
>>The scenario we are discussing is still the following:
>>
>>Paul B. Andersen wrote:
>>| A short light pulse is bouncing up and down between
>>| two horizontal mirrors. The path of the light pulse
>>| is vertical in the light clock frame.
>>|
>>| The very same light path in the rest
>>| frame of an arbitrary observer, where the light
>>| clock is moving at v:
>>|
>>| -----------------
>>| /\ /\
>>| / \ / \
>>| \/ \/ \/
>>| -----------------
>>
>>You made a blunder when you to this responded:
>>| I have explained to you many times that this is wrong.
>>
>>That blunder cannot be unmade by talking nonsense
>>about bending steel pipes.
>>The only way out is to admit that you were wrong.
>>Anything else will only make you look even more foolish.
>
>
> Paul, the light beam remains vertical in all frames.
> Like the vertical pipe, the whole thing moves sideways in the observer frame.
There is no continuous light beam in this scenario.
It is a short light pulse - a single photon, if you like.
> You haven't explained how the light beam bends in the middle if the observer
> moves away from the centre and not from one end.
>
> ____________
> /\
> / \ ______O
> \ /
> __\/________
>
>
> Place the observer in the middle of the light clock and see how stupid your
> claims are!!!
>
> Bent light!! HaHa!!!!
>
> Paul Andersen can bend steel pipes and light beams simply by moving sideways!!
> HaHa!!!
What's most amazing is that your stupidity
still is able to amaze me! :-)
Your condition is getting serious, Henri.
I think you understood this a year ago.
Paul
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