Re: Twin Paradox a blasphemy to Relativity

reany_at_asu.edu
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: 8 Feb 2005 18:47:08 -0800

AllYou! wrote:
> <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
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> >
> > AllYou! wrote:
> > > <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
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> > > >
> > > > 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?

Reality is to me whatever the hell I claim it to be. You are free to
use a different definition of it, if you please. But my definition is
as good as anyone elses, including yours. It simply means that we use
different definitions.

Patrick

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