Re: Two photons... relative distance question

Dear Curious:

"Curious" <anthonyroseuk-curious@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Given the definition of a frame of reference in
> space-time with the time co-ordinate = t, are
> you saying that all positions in that
> space-time frame do not necessarily have the
> same time t unless we can prove it by
> measurement???

Review the clock synchronization procedure. It leaves room for
anisotropy in c, as defined by a Lorentz aether. And there is
experimentally NO WAY to remove this ambiguity.

Consequently, (I'm assuming this is Dave Seppalla, again), there
is no way to *know* that t = t_1 is simultaneous for an arbitrary
array of points that I might define, even if those points are at
rest wrt me. Even if they all have synchronized clocks. There.
Is. No. Way. To. Know.

You can set up clocks (_n), you can synchronize them, and have
them send a light pulse at L_n/c seconds before t_0, and sure
enough every clock is seen to have simultaneously done its job.
But that is just the result of good synchronization. It doesn't
provide disallowance of a "we are booking through a Lorentz
aether at a good clip".

David A. Smith


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