Re: Lorentz transformations - a derivation

From: jem (xxx_at_xxx.xxx)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:14:29 -0500

Bilge wrote:
> jem:
> >Bilge wrote:
>
> >> I've never been able to find, ``Ye Olde Literary Devives and
> >> Pedagogical Implements Shoppe.''
> >
> >Have you tried the Yellow Pages?
>
> Only in this universe.
>
> >> The theory doesn't tell you how to build the literary devices.
> >
> >Theory describes the functioning of every measuring device used in
> >Physics, and tells you how to build none of them.
>
> Which devices does relativity describe?

It describes and exclusively uses Standard/Ideal clocks.

>
> >
> >> >but of course it has to be verified that real
> >> >world counterparts exist. Clocks whose mechanisms are insignificantly
> >> >affected by very large accelerations have been producd.
> >>
> >> Which is precisely the circularity to which I referred.
> >
> >I don't get your point. It's always necessary to determine whether real
> >measuring devices function acceptably close to the way they function in
> >Theory.
>
> Which theory is that?
>

Any theory.

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