Re: SR Postulate on Speed of Light

Curious wrote:

> IF a physics theory - correctly expressed - predicts a
> logical contradiction, (i.e. something which cannot be true), the
> theory cannot be true.

Good luck finding a logical contradiction in semi-Riemannian
geometry.

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> 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.

It's neither. The wall is entirely your own creation.

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

I see. And which of those processes have you so far found
lacking among physicists? The tacit assumption that physicists
don't use reason and therefore have created illogical theories is
nothing more than a vicious slur.


---Tim Shuba---
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