Re: SR Postulate on Speed of Light


shuba wrote:
> Curious wrote:
>
> > If
> > philosophy shows some physics theory to be illogical, then it's
time to
> > modify it, not build a wall.
>
> I know this is a radical suggestion, but why not start by
> learning the physics? That seems better than crouching behind a
> self-constructed wall of ignorance and throwing philosophical
> brickbats. You might even discover that relativity is logical.
>
>
> ---Tim Shuba---

I'm quite happy to, and in fact I am busy doing that. You're missing
the point: IF a physics theory - correctly expressed - predicts a
logical contradiction, (i.e. something which cannot be true), the
theory cannot be true. It may only need some refinement, some better
understanding, but in its full illogical form it is wrong, or flawed.
And it doesn't take any knowledge of physics to know that - just a
philosphical understanding of logic. In this case studying physics
would only help to find the error and resolve it. And any physicist
who, instead of using philosophy and any other means of checking his
theory, separates his theory from their spotlight by insisting that
they have no place in physics, is only doing himself and his theory
short of advantageous refinement. There is only one truth out there,
and it isn't going to bend itself to a theory just because the theory
is well liked. No, sooner or later the theory is going to have to
change, and the sooner it does, the more useful it is.
So I'm not 'crouching' 'throwing brickbats': I'm helping to iron out
the anomalies either in my understanding (and learning physics in the
process)or in the theory.

My main point is that this is not a 'self-constructed wall of
ignorance' on the side of philosophy, but if there is such a wall, it
is on the side of such physicists.

We have nothing to fear from the truth. It is the truth we seek. By
observation, by hypothesis, by reason. By *all* of these.

.

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