Re: Roberts considers Einstein paper to be irrelevant verbiage.

From: Eugene Shubert (http://www.everythingimportant.org)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:55:41 -0600

"Eric Gisse" <fsegg@uaf.edu> wrote in message
news:fd0fc2fa.0411272052.79ece510@posting.google.com...
> "Eugene Shubert" <http://www.everythingimportant.org> wrote in
> message news:<41a90e19@sys13.hou.wt.net>...
>> <dummy@dummy.net> wrote in message
>> news:9i7qd.37939$F7.16188@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> > You've pulled sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) out of a hat.
>>
>> No. I pulled it out of thin air. Now find a
>> mathematician who says that I can't do that.
>>
>> http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf
>> Eugene Shubert
>
> Even the mathematically-inept Androcles sees the obvious.

Eugene Shubert wrote:
"Here is a magic derivation of the Lorentz transformation that
is so baffling that many physicists have dogmatically declared
that it is impossible."
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf

"Tom Roberts" <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote
http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=npIpd.32646$Qv5.9901@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com
> Bottom line: your claim that "many physicists have dogmatically
> declared that it is impossible" is based on your own limitations
> and inexperience, not any fault of "physicists".

Is it possible or impossible to derive the Lorentz transformation
from the Galilean transformation? It seems that Tom Roberts is
beginning to understand my thesis and, therefore, refuses to
answer my question decisively.

Eugene Shubert

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