Re: Twin Paradox a blasphemy to Relativity

From: AllYou! (idaman_at_conversent.net)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:20:52 -0500

<reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
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>
> AllYou! wrote:
> > <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
> > news:1107872029.480750.172830@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > >
> > > guskz@hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > SR, like any other physical theory, is merely an attempt to model
> > > events in the real world (the world of measurement) as accurately
> as
> > > possible.
> >
> > (sigh)
> >
> > How do you judge how accurate that model might be without any way of
> comparing it to
> > anything? Are you suggesting that you know what's real and can
> compare the model to that?
>
> I defined what I meant be "real" in this context. How much better a
> test can you get than measurement?

As usual, your skill at crafting sentences betrays the meaninglessness of them. Taking
measurements (i.e., making observations) is an intellectual process and cannot be
considered as *real* no matter what tortured definition you might try to assign to that
term.

What's more, a test is a comparison. Whereas your position is that theories are required
to make any observations (i.e., measurements), and all theories are free inventions of the
human mind, what is the value of any measurement if both entities being compared are
freely invented?

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