Re: SR Postulate on Speed of Light


"Bilge" <dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:slrnd972t6.57s.dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Harry:
> >
> >"Bilge" <dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:slrnd94bk7.2rv.dubious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >> Let's create the same paradox in galilean relativity. You and your
> >> twin are at your place and your twin decides to go to the store and
> >> buy some chips. At time t_0, you both are at your place. He gets back
> >> at time t_1, so at time t_1, you both are your place. How do you explain
> >> the fact that the odometer on his car changed? According to galilean
> >> relativity, your twin is equally correct in saying that he didn't move.
> >> He just stayed in his car while you moved away from him until the
> >> store showed up and then moved back again after he bought the chips
> >> and got back in his car. Even worse, since neither of you are moving
> >> relative to each other at t=0 and t=1, your relative velocities are
> >> zero and since the galilean transforms are x' = x - vt, neither of
> >> you could have gone anywhere.
> >
> >Yes, that's a good example! Of course the paradox is solved if we take into
> >account that there is a road that affects the odometer's count.
>
> Oh, do you mean it's necessary to have a road before a distance can
> exist? If not, don't say anything so stupid when replying.

Of course not. It's a 4WD Mud Seeker.

>
> >
> >> It's always possible to misapply assumptions to draw an incorrect
> >> conclusion if the goal is to create a paradox. There's no difference
> >> between the paradox I just created and the one you think exists in
> >> special relativity other than the equivalent formulation of arc length
> >> in 4 dimensions includes the time as one of the axes.
> >
> >To stick to the equivalence, what according to you affects the clock count
> >of the moving twin?
>
> Nothing affects either clock. You've only highlighted your ignorance
> of relativity.

and his agenda - again ;-)

Dirk Vdm


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