Re: Why Relativity must be wrong...

From: Bill Hobba (bhobba_at_rubbish.net.au)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:29:23 GMT

"scm" <stephcmartin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112147942.613072.47330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Axiom: Time is a succession of events (a logic device created by man)

In physics time is defined to be what a clock reads. Instead of introducing
your own terminology how about sticking with what is standard?

> Axiom: Events are absolute
> I can't believe that time is not absolute.

Many people can not. But experiment shows it isn't -
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/ptti2002/paper20.pdf

> Time is a succession of
> absolute events. For example, if one day you walk in your office and
> find the light bulb burnt out, and the day before the light bulb was
> burning bright, then the event of the light bulb expiring occurred
> without it's being related to you or I, it just occurred - an event.
> So to say that the moment the light bulb expired was different to you
> and I would be to assume that the event was not absolute - i.e. out of
> sync with itself. The argument that the event appeared to occur at
> different times depending on if, say, I were travelling at close to the
> speed of light and you were not would mean that in our own 'personal'
> time they occurred differently and were thus non-absolute. I believe
> that perhaps relativities assumption that all time is relative to the
> individual is actually a change in the scale used to measure time. I
> think that because an event such as a super nova for example probably
> occurred at some time in the universe and spreads it's effect
> throughout the universe evenly - despite the speed that other suns,
> galaxies etc. may be moving relative to it.

You are talking about causality - SR has causality preserved. Instead of
posting misconceptions learn about the theory you are criticizing -
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110076,
and ancient, but I still think excellent post by Tom Roberts
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&selm=54jfst%24glp%40ssbunews.ih.lucent.com
and chapter 10 of
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~phys16/Textbook/
under the heading of Relativity without c.

Bill